Now, Taliban stops women from sightseeing: All ways Afghan women’s rights have been suppressed
www.firstpost.com
Since coming to power in August 2021, the Taliban government has made a number of moves to suppress the rights of Afghan women. The latest curb it has imposed is banning women from attending the popular Band-e-Amir national park 175 kilometres west of Kabul

“Not content with depriving girls and women of education, employment, and free movement, the Taliban also want to take from them parks and sport and now even nature, as we see from this latest ban on women visiting Band-e-Amir,” Human Rights Watch’s Associate Women’s Rights Director Heather Barr says.

  • StorksforlegsEnglish
    15•2 years ago

    The people living in afghanistan are the ones being victimized by the taliban. They do have supporters obviously, but to say that all men living in afghanistan are okay with what’s happening is ridiculous.

    If America was violently overtaken by gun-toting religious maniacs, would it be fair to say “Oh well some of them voted for it! Their fault!”

    • @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
      11•2 years ago

      America is being taken over by gun-toting religious maniacs, and yeah, most of the populace supports them. Take a look at Trump’s recent poll numbers.

      • StorksforlegsEnglish
        3•2 years ago

        Yes, they are trying. Sorry I should rephrase that to “if America was successfully overtaken”

        I still wouldn’t say most of the populace, it’s more like a tie. But thats’ definitely a way way higher number than there should be considering.

      • StorksforlegsEnglish
        5•2 years ago

        They definitely did. But a whole lot of Americans voted against them, too. It would be unfair to dismiss all of America because some of them vote for these people.

    • Susanna
      5•2 years ago

      @storksforlegs @raccoona_nongrata That’s essentially what a lot of people elsewhere in the US say about those of us who live in states run by gun-toting religious maniacs. (For the record, about 40% of us did not vote for this.)

      • NoneOfUrBusiness
        2•2 years ago

        There are no real signs of any will to resistance, so what else are we to make of that besides this is the way the majority wants it?

        I agree with your general point, but isn’t there resistance in the northern parts of Afghanistan? Also there’s the part where the US gave the Taliban some of the best PR out there. Fighting against a foreign invader tends to make you pretty popular irrespective of your stance on other things.