Group has backtracked on guarantees to ensure sure rights for women and girls since its return to energy final yr.
The Taliban has backtracked on their promise to ensure the rights of ladies to be educated and given different freedoms, returning to their earlier insurance policies once they had been final in energy.
The group, which took over Kabul 16 months in the past, argues its guidelines are consistent with their interpretation of Islam, though Afghanistan is the one Muslim nation that prohibits ladies from being educated.
Here’s a timeline of its clampdown:
August 2021: The Taliban returns
The Taliban returns to energy in Kabul on August 15 throughout a chaotic ultimate exit of the United States-led overseas troops, ending a 20-year battle and precipitating the collapse of the Western-backed authorities of President Ashraf Ghani.
The group guarantees to offer Afghans extra freedoms than their first stint in energy from 1996 to 2001, saying it’ll honour human rights obligations, together with these of ladies.
September 2021: Gender-segregated school rooms
The Taliban broadcasts on September 12 final yr that girls can attend universities with gender-segregated entrances and classrooms, however they’ll solely be taught by professors of the identical intercourse or outdated males. Different restrictions included the carrying of hijabs as a part of a obligatory gown code.
March 2022: Women barred from college
On March 23 this yr, ladies’ secondary colleges had been alleged to reopen, however the Taliban rescinded the directive and tens of 1000’s of youngsters had been shut out and ordered to remain residence.
Could 2022: Keep at residence
Taliban supreme chief Hibatullah Akhunzada orders women on May 7 to fully cover themselves, together with their faces, in public and customarily keep at residence. Ladies are additionally banned from inter-city journey with no male escort.
August 2022: Protests get away
Taliban fighters beat girls protesters chanting “bread, work and freedom” and fireplace into the air on August 13 to break up a demonstration outdoors the schooling ministry in Kabul.
The federal government forces additionally detain and beat journalists overlaying the protests.
November 2022: Parks out of bounds
Ladies are banned from entering parks, fun fairs, gyms and public baths.
December 2022: Execution, floggings
The Taliban carries out its first public execution since returning to energy, that of a convicted assassin who’s shot lifeless on December 7 by his sufferer’s father in western Farah province.
The subsequent day, greater than 1,000 individuals watch as 27 Afghans, together with girls, are flogged in Charikar in central Parwan province for a variety of offences starting from sodomy and deception to forgery and debauchery.
Floggings in public have since been usually carried out in different provinces.
December 2022: No college for girls
Armed guards cease a whole bunch of younger girls from coming into college campuses on December 21, a day after a terse launch from the minister for increased schooling broadcasts an order “suspending the education of females till additional discover”.
