Several Afghan women gathered in Kabul on Sunday to demand the proper to figure and study under the new Taliban-run government.
Since the Taliban’s return to power after a two-decade war, the fundamentalist militants have issued restrictive rules on girls’ education and women’s participation publicly life.
Over a dozen women protested outside the premises of what wont to be the Afghan Women’s Affairs Ministry — until the Taliban turned it into the department for the “propagation of virtue and therefore theprevention of vice.”
society during which women aren’t active is [a] dead society,” one sign read as protesters chanted, “women’s rights and human rights.”
Female employees ordered to remain home
According to the Associated Press press agency , the Taliban’s interim Kabul Mayor Hamdullah Namony said on Sunday that female employees are ordered to remain home, pending an extra decision.
Namony said exceptions were made for ladies who couldn’t get replaced by men. “There are some areas that men can’t roll in the hay . we’ve to ask our female staff to satisfy their duties. there’s no alternative for it,” he was quoted as saying by the AP.
Women in several areas across Afghanistan are told to remain home from both public and personal sector jobs. But the Taliban haven’t yet announced a consistent policy towards women’s work.
During the Taliban’s rule out Afghanistan within the late 1990s, the Islamist militants enforced hard-line policies toward women, including publicly beating those that dared to venture outside without covering their entire bodies.
After the Taliban seized power last month, they tried to strike a conciliatory tone, vowing to uphold human rights and respect women’s rights “within the bounds of Islam.”
So far, they need forbidden girls from attending lyceum and instructed universities to segregate classes by gender. The Taliban also named a replacement Afghan Cabinet with no women in ministerial positions.
Hundreds of women have taken to the streets to protest these restrictions over the past month. Their demonstrations have mostly been met by force from Taliban fighters.
