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UN rejects new Taliban rules

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UN rejects new Taliban rules

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The newspaper La Jornada
Monday, August 26, 2024, p. 30

Islamabad. New Taliban laws banning women from speaking out and showing their faces in public offer a gloomy vision for the future of Afghanistan, warned the head of the UN office, Roza Otunbayeva. The laws, approved last Wednesday, aggravate the restrictions on women’s rights, since even the sound of a female voice It is apparently a violation. The Ministry of Virtue and Against Vice will regulate personal conduct.