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Taliban Rules Impose Chaperones on Afghan Women
March 26, 2022 at 7:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 32 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2022/03/26/taliban-rules-impose-chaperones-on-afghan-women/
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Women in Afghanistan are struggling with new Taliban rules requiring them to be accompanied by a male relative, one in a series of measures that they say threaten to squeeze them out of public and professional life, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The official new rules dont bar women from traveling alone near their homes
However, women across the country say guardianship rules are being imposed on a far wider scale, and include needing a male relative to join them for basic tasks such as entering government buildings, seeing a doctor or catching a taxi.
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pandr32
(12,173 posts)jimfields33
(18,895 posts)pandr32
(12,173 posts)Women were sent home from their jobs, floggings commenced, and the streets cleared of women. The Taliban said that girls could continue to go to school but they lied. Women are chattel once again--have no rights and all their dreams are collapsing. Dark ages and barbarism are the reality.
brer cat
(26,279 posts)and thrown away when they tire of them.