What Happened: The Taliban’s new restrictive laws in Afghanistan further limit women’s freedoms, enforcing full-body veils, banning public speaking, and formalizing harsh penalties for non-compliance.
What you need to know: Life for women in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan has become more restrictive as the government enforces new “vice and virtue” laws. Issued by the ministry for the “propagation of virtue and prevention of vice,” the rules require women to fully cover their bodies, including faces, and prohibit them from singing, reciting, or reading aloud in public.
More: Women are also barred from looking at men unrelated by blood or marriage. The laws formalize previous restrictions and impose penalties like property confiscation and detention.
Also: The Taliban has already banned girls from higher education and restricted women from working with NGOs