Taliban: NGOs employing women will be banned & building should not have windows that women can be seen

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In the latest crackdown on women’s rights in Afghanistan, the Taliban have announced they will no longer allow any national or foreign NGOs that employ women to operate in the country. In a letter published on social platform X on Sunday night, the Economy Ministry said NGOs that do not comply with the new rule will lose their licenses to operate.
Full article https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20241230-ngos-employ-afghan-women-face-closure-new-taliban-rule

Afghanistan's Taliban leader has ordered that new residential buildings are constructed without windows looking onto "places usually used by women" and said that existing windows with such views should be blocked to prevent "obscene acts".
Full article https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241229-taliban-leader-bans-windows-overlooking-women-s-areas

@SuzieNine but the law and wider culture doesn't support it, and the laws that allow loopholes such as marriage at 16 with parental permission are under scrutiny, I things are getting better. I agree that it isn't the problem of a specific religion but of a misogynistic culture.

Agreed, it happens in all hyper-masculine cultures. It’s a man problem not a religious problem.

Oliver Brown, the DT's chief sports writer, who has been campaigning against TWs in women's sport calls for a ban on playing the Afghan cricket team. Today's sports section. He really is a fighter on behalf of women's sports.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2025/01/03/england-cannot-be-cowards-cricketing-boycott-of-afghanistan/

A whole page feature damning the Taliban and its abhorrent regime. He comments that international community gave in to the Taliban's refusal last year to include women in the Qatar talks and says:

"English cricket can prove here it will not succumb to the same cowardice. It might be powerless to curb the Taliban's depredations in Afghanistan, but it can signal that their scarcely believable assaults on women's rights leave them friendless on the global stage.........The ECB needs to show, by preventing England for taking to the field in Lahore next month that the time for tolerating such grotesque abuses has passed."

The Observer also has a good article on this today by Catherine Bennett. Apologies I can’t add link but hopefully someone else can. And I’ve written to the ECB on this.

Here's Bennett's article

Visit Afghanistan, land of culture, cricket and women closeted in their own homes | Catherine Bennett | The Guardian

Thank you, how clearly she has put everyone to shame.

"Last week the Taliban government’s spokesman confirmed on X that, to men like himself, even a fully covered woman with, say, an erect mop, is a sexual stimulus too far. “Seeing women working in kitchens, in courtyards or collecting water from wells can lead to obscene acts.”"

It's obvious who needs to be locked up, and it isn't the women.

Not sure why my quote from the Guardian article produced a link to an Independent article, but hey ho.

Edit: Oh I see. Ignore this.