The Taliban's new ‘Vice and Virtue Order’ particularly targets women
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Dear John,
I am reaching out to discuss an urgent and distressing situation that has unfolded in Afghanistan this week.
Since the Taliban takeover three years ago, life for women has become unimaginably difficult. They have been systematically excluded from public life. Access to education for women and girls has been completely stripped away, their movements outside the home limited, and a strict dress code imposed.
But the situation has worsened this week. The Taliban announced a new ‘Vice and Virtue Order’, a set of strict regulations which dictates public behavior, dress, and social interactions, particularly targeting women. Under these new laws, women have been banned from speaking, singing, or reciting poetry (or the Quran) in public. It even includes them being overheard in public from inside their homes.
Women must also completely veil themselves from head to toe in thick material, to avoid the risk of leading men into 'temptation'. Men, by comparison, have been instructed to cover their bodies too but only from their navel to their knees.
Such severe restrictions are aimed at silencing women, making them increasingly invisible from public life. Women ‘suspected’ of breaching the new laws can be detained and punished ‘in a manner deemed appropriate’, by the Taliban.
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I am horrified to see these changes unfolding. I’m proud to say that Womankind stands with women in Afghanistan, working with partner organisations that are struggling to carry out their work under such an oppressive regime.
Womankind Worldwide is committed to working with partner organisations that strive to improve the lives of women in Afghanistan, to provide them with training, resources, and protection for activists to continue their essential work. But we cannot do this alone; we urgently need your help. ([link removed])
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Thank you for your unwavering support of women’s rights.
With gratitude,
Martina Hoggart
Interim Director of Fundraising & Marketing
Womankind Worldwide
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