The Taliban’s latest edicts ban women’s voices from being heard in public
An Afghan burka-clad woman sits beside a girl, as they look for alms along a street in the Fayzabad district of Badakhshan province on Nov. 16, 2023.In 2021, the world witnessed the chaotic United States withdrawal from the country, and those in the know feared the worst as the Taliban filled the void. In the three years since, the Taliban 2.0 has brought Afghanistan back three decades, especially for girls and women.
The Soviet invasion in 1979 brought war and strife, and then women’s rights were stripped away in the 1990s with the Taliban’s radical interpretation of Islam. By the end of 1996, the group had taken over two-thirds of the country – creating a regime in which al-Qaeda was given sanctuary and misogyny ran amok.
But the desperation of the women still haunts me: The burka-clad mother who begged for money and food on the streets of Kabul; the Kandahar farm wives who hid themselves from view as soon as me and the boys from Valcartier pulled up to their family’s shacks; the 11-year-old with internal injuries – the youngest wife – inside a new domestic violence shelter in Herat.
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