{"id":1468120,"date":"2022-05-08T13:44:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T17:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468120"},"modified":"2022-05-08T13:44:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T17:44:47","slug":"taliban-orders-afghan-women-to-cover-their-faces-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taliban-orders-afghan-women-to-cover-their-faces-in-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Orders Afghan Women To Cover Their Faces In Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaliban-orders-afghan-women-to-cover-their-faces-in-public%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468120&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Untitled-design-67.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Taliban government in Afghanistan on Saturday ordered that women must cover their faces in public, returning to the restrictive policy that ended more than two decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada ruled that a woman who refuses to comply could lead to her father or closest male relative facing imprisonment or loss of a state job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call on the world to co-operate with the Islamic Emirate and people of Afghanistan \u2026 Don\u2019t bother us. Don\u2019t bring more pressure, because history is witness, Afghans won\u2019t be affected by pressure,\u201d Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, the minister for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, told a news conference, Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/taliban-announce-women-must-cover-faces-public-say-burqa-is-best-2022-05-07\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The group announced the recommended covering would be a blue burqa, the head-to-toe garment forced upon Afghan women during the Taliban\u2019s previous rule.<\/p>\n<p>Most Afghan women already wear a headscarf, though the new requirement and its enforcement increase the regulation and punishment upon a woman\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations\u2019 mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) released a <a href=\"https:\/\/unama.unmissions.org\/unama-statement-hijab-directive-taliban-authorities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> on Saturday that opposed the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUNAMA is deeply concerned with today\u2019s announcement by the Taliban de facto authorities that all women must cover their faces in public, that women should only leave their homes in cases of necessity, and that violations of this directive will lead to the punishment of their male relatives,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUNAMA will immediately request meetings with the Taliban de facto authorities to seek clarification on the status of this decision. UNAMA will also engage in consultations with members of the international community regarding its implications, the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, Secretary-General of the U.N., also expressed his concern over the new annoucement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m alarmed by today\u2019s announcement by the Taliban that women must cover their faces in public and leave home only in cases of necessity,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cI once again urge the Taliban to keep their promises to Afghan women &#038; girls, and their obligations under international human rights law.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;m alarmed by today&#8217;s announcement by the Taliban that women must cover their faces in public and leave home only in cases of necessity.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>I once again urge the Taliban to keep their promises to Afghan women &#038; girls, and their obligations under international human rights law.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ant\u00f3nio Guterres (@antonioguterres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antonioguterres\/status\/1523105396533374977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The move is one of several efforts pushing back against the rights of women in Afghanistan following the Taliban\u2019s return to rule and America\u2019s military departure last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the Taliban takeover in August, the group has imprisoned\u00a0dozens of women\u2019s rights activists, restricted access to\u00a0education for women and girls, and blocked women from international travel without a male guardian,\u201d the Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/05\/07\/taliban-orders-head-toe-coverings-afghan-women-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> regarding the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany women have also been barred from the workplace under Taliban rule because of guidelines forbidding men and women to work in proximity to one another,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-after-145-billion-u-s-reconstruction-effort-in-afghanistan-tsunami-of-hunger-worsening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that Taliban forces have claimed they are developing a 2022 education curriculum, but the State Department told the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction it has no evidence of it being operational yet.<\/p>\n<p>Afghan women have also been forced from their jobs after the terrorist group assumed power. According to the United Nations Develop Program, restrictions on female employment could cost the national economy $1 billion and a GDP slippage of 5%. Prior to the Taliban takeover, women constituted more than 20% of Afghanistan\u2019s workforce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban government in Afghanistan on Saturday ordered that women must cover their faces in public, returning to the restrictive policy that ended more than two decades ago.Supreme Leader Haibatullah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":1482036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}