Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

How women’s basic rights and freedoms are being eroded all over the world

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par Hind Elhinnawy, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University

From Iraq to Afghanistan to the US, basic freedoms for women are being eroded as governments start rolling back existing laws.

Just a few months ago a ban on Afghan women speaking in public was the latest measure introduced by the Taliban, who took back control of the country in 2021. From August the ban included singing, reading aloud, reciting poetry and even laughing outside their homes.

The Taliban’s ministry for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice, which implements one of…

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