Afghan women filmed singing in protest of ban on their voices
The HinduAn Afghan woman sings in a video showing just a sliver of her face, one of dozens of women taking part in an online protest against a law that bans women from raising their voices in public. Taliban authorities last week announced the law, which includes rules that women's faces, bodies and voices should be "covered" outside the home, among 35 articles dictating behaviour and lifestyle. In response, Afghan women inside and outside the country have posted videos on social media of them singing, along with hashtags such as "My voice is not forbidden" and "No to Taliban". The law refers to women's voices as "aurat" — a term used in sharia to denote the intimate parts of a man or woman that must be covered. The law "cements policies that completely erase women's presence in public — silencing their voices, and depriving them of their individual autonomy, effectively attempting to render them into faceless, voiceless shadows", said spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani.
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