In August, the Taliban issued a “Vice and Virtue” law that banned women's voices from being heard in public. A few weeks later, more than 130 women traveled to Tirana, Albania, to attend the Afghan Women's Summit to discuss the Taliban's human rights abuses.
Guardian reporter Annie Kelly At the conference, Afghan women spoke about how their lives have changed since the Taliban came to power.
“I think it's quite hard to really comprehend how much life has changed for half the population of Afghanistan since the Taliban took power three years ago,” Annie says. Michael Safi“Afghan women come from a position where for years they have been encouraged to go to school, get a job, get a job in the police or the judiciary.
“Within weeks of taking power, the Taliban banned all girls over the age of 11 from attending secondary education. They also closed women's universities. Since then, the Taliban have banned women from almost all forms of paid employment. They have banned women from walking in public parks. They have closed women-only communal spaces, including beauty salons. They have introduced stoning and public executions for women found guilty of adultery and other crimes.”
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