Taliban vice and virtue laws provide 'distressing vision' for Afghanistan, warns UN envoy

UN official warns Taliban ‘virtue’ law severely restricts rights in Afghanistan

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Roza Otunbayeva, warned Sunday that the Taliban’s “Law on Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice” imposes severe restrictions on the rights of Afghans. Otunbayeva noted that the 35-article law, which includes harsh measures such as a ban on women’s voices and uncovered faces in public, presents a “distressing vision for A…

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Taliban vice and virtue laws a ‘distressing vision’ for Afghanistan, UN warns

Women must now conceal their faces, bodies and voices outside the home

New Taliban Restrictions on Women in Public Point to a ‘Distressing Vision’ for Future of Afghanistan, UN says

The Islamic fundamentalists now require women to conceal their faces, bodies and voices outside the home.

U.N.: Taliban vice and virtue laws provide 'distressing vision' for Afghanistan

The laws include a requirement for a woman to conceal her face, body and voice outside the home.

Last Thursday, the Taliban included in a Law for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice many of the limitations they had been addressing.