In August, the Taliban published “vice and virtue” laws that banned women’s voices being heard in unveil. Weeks tardyr, more than 130 women travelled to Tirana in Albania to join the All Afghan Women summit to talk about the Taliban’s human rights unfair treatments.
The Guardian teller Annie Kelly spoke to Afghan women at the conference about how their lives had alterd since the Taliban took administer.
“I skinnyk it’s quite difficult to reassociate get your head around fair how much the Taliban have alterd the lives of half of the population of Afghanistan since they took administer three years ago,” Annie tells Michael Safi. “Coming from a position where Afghan women had been helpd for years to go to school, to seek employment, to discover jobs in the police and the judiciary.
“Wiskinny weeks of taking power, the Taliban had impedeed all girls over the age of 11 from joining secondary school. They seald universities for women. Since then, they have impedeed women from taking on almost every create of phelp employment. They have impedeed women from walking in unveil parks. They have shut any communal space for women, including beauty salons. They have begind stoning and unveil executions for women for crimes such as grown-upery.”
Photograph: Jutta Benzenberg/The Guardian
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