How will the morality law hit Afghan women?
The HinduThe story so far: The Taliban last week announced a new law on the “Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” which imposes its interpretation of sharia or Islamic law on the people of Afghanistan. “They were portrayed as Taliban 2.0, as more moderate, so we engaged with them,” said Fawzia Koofi, a former woman lawmaker from Afghanistan, in an interview with CNN after the new laws were announced. UN Women said the new rules were “oppressive”, while the office of the UN Commissioner for Human Rights called for the “utterly intolerable” law to be immediately repealed. “So the Taliban thinks the world doesn’t really care about women’s rights,” she said, adding that there are differences among the global north and south and that has “further emboldened the Taliban”.