Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities formally adopts a set of morality legal guidelines, together with requiring ladies to cowl their faces.
When the Taliban swept again into energy three years in the past, it took over a rustic through which the civil and political rights of Afghans have been enshrined within the structure.
However since then, lots of these rights have been eroded – particularly for ladies and women.
Now, Taliban officers have revealed a brand new set of morality legal guidelines – which can of their phrases “promote advantage and forestall vice”.
The brand new legal guidelines in Afghanistan vary from requiring ladies to cowl their faces and males to develop beards to banning music in vehicles.
So, will this newest crackdown additional isolate the Taliban?
And what affect will it have on the lives of hundreds of thousands of Afghans who’re already struggling to outlive?
Presenter:
Hashem Ahelbarra
Visitors:
Mariam Solaimankhil – Member of Afghanistan’s Parliament in Exile and a board member of Afghan Peace Watch NGO
Bahar Jalali – Assistant instructing professor at Loyola College Maryland
Mursal Wardak – Training and girls’s rights advocate and legislation pupil in Germany
