Amongst different issues, these guidelines state that girls’s voices can now not be heard in public and that they don’t seem to be allowed to look immediately at males they don’t seem to be associated to by blood or marriage.
The measures add to a litany of restrictions that the regime has imposed on Afghan ladies and women since returning to energy three years in the past.
Ladies must fully cowl their faces and our bodies when leaving their houses. Ladies and women aged over 12 are additionally prevented from going to colleges, parks, gyms and sport golf equipment. There are restrictions on the kind of work that they’re allowed to do.
“At this time in Kabul a feminine cat has extra freedom than a lady. A cat could go sit on her entrance stoop and really feel the solar on her face, she could chase a squirrel within the park,” Streep mentioned on Monday at an occasion to lift consciousness of Afghan ladies’s rights on the UN headquarters in New York.
“A squirrel has extra rights than a woman in Afghanistan at this time as a result of the general public parks have been closed to ladies and women by the Taliban.
“A chook could sing in Kabul, however a woman could not in public. That is extraordinary. It is a suppression of the pure legislation.
“The best way that this tradition, this society has been upended, is a cautionary story for the remainder of the world,” mentioned Streep, who referred to as on world leaders to “cease the sluggish suffocation” of Afghan ladies and women.
United Nations Secretary-Common Antonio Guterres, who attended the identical occasion, mentioned Afghanistan “won’t ever take its rightful place on the worldwide stage” with out educated ladies and ladies in employment.