Mick Hartley

The Taliban has banned women from speaking to one another. Khalid Hanafi, Taliban’s minister for virtue and vice, declared it forbidden for adult women to let their voices be heard by other women, further restricting existing bans on speaking and showing their faces in public. pic.twitter.com/NVUPU3h9jL

— Habib Khan (@HabibKhanT) October 26, 2024

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What is the “end game” here? Forbid #women in #Afghanistan to breathe?
What is particularly astonishing to me is that like the rest of humanity, every single one of those issuing and enforcing these edicts came from a woman’s womb and has/had a mother at some point. To be so keen… https://t.co/Dn7XYBTwhg

— Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls (@UNSRVAW) October 27, 2024

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"What is particularly astonishing to me is that like the rest of humanity, every single one of those issuing and enforcing these edicts came from a woman’s womb and has/had a mother at some point. To be so keen to mistreat the human beings that gave you life and live amongst you is as incomprehensible to anyone as it is outrageous.
"We must put an end to this erasure of women."