Women and girls face new restrictions
Sep 17, 2021
3 minutes
By Hannah Ellis-Petersen
The Taliban has announced that women in Afghanistan will only be allowed to study at university in sex-segregated classrooms and Islamic dress will be compulsory, stoking fears that a gender apartheid will be imposed on the country under the new regime.
The international community has been keeping a close watch on how the new, all-male, Taliban regime is treating Afghan women in order to gauge just how much the Taliban’s pledges
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