{"id":66417,"date":"2024-08-26T22:53:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/26\/taliban-bar-on-afghan-women-speaking-in-public-un-afghanistan"},"modified":"2024-08-26T22:53:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T13:53:10","slug":"frightening-taliban-law-bans-women-from-speaking-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66417","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Frightening\u2019 Taliban law bans women from speaking in public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New vice and virtue restrictions offer \u2018a distressing vision of Afghanistan\u2019s future\u2019, says UN<\/p>\n<p>New Taliban laws that prohibit women from speaking or showing their faces outside their homes have been condemned by the UN and met with horror by human rights groups.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban published a host of new \u201cvice and virtue\u201d laws last week, approved by their supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, which state that women must completely veil their bodies \u2013 including their faces \u2013 in thick clothing at all times in public to avoid leading men into temptation and vice.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/26\/taliban-bar-on-afghan-women-speaking-in-public-un-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New vice and virtue restrictions offer \u2018a distressing vision of Afghanistan\u2019s future\u2019, says UNNew Taliban laws that prohibit women from speaking or showing their faces outside their homes have been condemned by the UN and met with horror by human right&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,59,53,86,212,61,44,84,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-law","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-united-nations","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66418,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66417\/revisions\/66418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}