Taliban impose strict window bans: women's life at risk!

Taliban impose strict window bans: women's life at risk!

Afghanistan - In Afghanistan, a terrifying new regulation will be introduced by the Taliban: Women may no longer be visible from windows of their houses in the future. Hibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the Taliban, issued a decree that strictly forbids the installation of windows that allow women usually use. This is to prevent people from seeing women in everyday activities such as cooking or when finging water from the fountain, as this could supposedly lead to “obscene actions”. This reports Today.at .

The regulation states that new buildings have to be designed in such a way that they have no windows to neighboring houses, through the "the farm, the kitchen and other places that are usually used by women". At the same time, existing windows are no longer allowed if they allow a look at these areas. Homeowners are now asked to build walls or to block the view. The Taliban justify this procedure by the fact that the measures are necessary to maintain the "privacy" of women and to protect them from potential damage. This rule is seamlessly included in the package of measures, which has systematically restricted the rights of women since the takeover of the Taliban in August 2021, as Zeit.de reports.

tightening of women's rights

The Taliban not only regulated the visibility of women in everyday life. Other areas of life are also affected. For example, women and girls were denied access to secondary schools and professions in non -governmental organizations. In addition, the Ministry of Economic Affairs announced that women can work in the medical field without training and that for many women there are still no work permits. These measures alerted the international community and are referred to by the UN as a "gender apartheid". Such guidelines present women with an unbearable reality in which they are increasingly excluded from public life.