UN: Virtue law in Afghanistan completely unacceptable
Published: Tuesday, Aug 27th 2024, 13:20
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The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has sharply criticized the Taliban's new so-called virtue law in Afghanistan.
Degrading women to faceless and voiceless shadows is "completely unacceptable", Türk said in Geneva. He called for the law to be withdrawn.
According to this set of rules of the militant Islamist rulers, women must cover their faces and bodies in the presence of men who are not related to them. They are also not allowed to sing, read aloud or recite anything in public - because, according to the Taliban, their voice is "intimate".
This and previous laws violated, among other things, women's rights to freedom of expression, freedom of movement and freedom from discrimination. Afghanistan is thus violating its obligations to guarantee the human rights of all. The EU had already expressed similar views.
The Taliban regained power in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021 after almost two decades of international efforts to promote democracy and development. Since then, they have increasingly curtailed women's rights.
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