Treatment of women by the Taliban

An Afghan woman waits to receive a food ration distributed by a South Korea humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 10, 2022.

Afghan women say Taliban’s new rules aim to make them ‘disappear from public life’

Afghanistan

The Taliban in Afghanistan have announced new rules requiring women to cover their faces when in public. The decree also says that women should only leave home when necessary. This is the latest in a series of restrictions imposed on women since the group came to power last summer.

Afghan women chant during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 21, 2021.

‘We have no future’: Afghan women protest Taliban restrictions

Afghanistan