Since the Taliban returned to power in 2021 in Afghanistan, they gradually excluded women from public space. Faced with this persecution of women, considered a crime against humanity, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) asked arrest mandates against senior Taliban leaders.
If the Taliban government ensures that the Islamic law “guarantees” the rights of Afghans and Afghanes, for the UN, it has set up “gender apartheid”.
Education, work, public space … Here is how Afghan people have lived since the Taliban promulgated several laws inspired by their ultra -regigrist vision of Islam.
Secondary and faculties banned Afghanes
Afghanistan is the only country in the world to prohibit girls from studying beyond primary school. For the start of the 2022 school year, they banished high school girls, before prohibiting them universities the following year.
Bannies of the faculties, many students fell back on the last sector to which they could access: schools of nurses and midwives. But in December, managers of health schools had indicated that they were informed that their establishments could no longer welcome women on the orders of the supreme guide, Hibatullah Akhundzada. It is this leader who is targeted by one of the two arrest warrants claimed in The Hague on Thursday.
A employment rate of women in the public service of 26 % to “zero”
In three years, the employment rate of women in public service has increased from 26 % “to zero”, according to the UN. If many entrepreneurs have set up business – especially small sewing or catering companies -, beauty salons have been closed, deprived of work hairdressers, manicures and other beauticians.
-And at the end of December, the Ministry of the Afghan Economy reiterated to NGOs, national and international, that they were forbidden to work with women, after a first announcement in December 2022.
Ban on going to parks, in sports halls or singing
Under the new laws to “prevent vice and promote virtue” decreed for three years, Afghanes can no longer go to parks, sports halls, nor almost leave their homes without chaperon.
They are forbidden to sing or declaim poetry. A law announced at the end of July also encourages them to “veil” their voice and their bodies outside their home.
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Some local radios and televisions have already ceased to broadcast female voices. As for the Ministry of Women's Affairs, it has been closed and its premises are now those of the Ministry of Prevention of Vice and the Promotion of Virtue, the Taliban customs police.
