The Taliban has rejected concerns and criticism from the United Nations over new vice and virtue laws which include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public. On Sunday, Roza Otunbayeva, who heads the U.N. mission in Afghanistan, said the law showed a “distressing vision” for the country's future.
FILE - Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan , May 23, 2023. The Taliban Virtue and Vice Ministry had on May 7, 2022 ,said women in public must wear all-encompassing robes and cover their faces except for their eyes. , who heads the U.N. mission in the country, UNAMA, said Sunday the laws provided a “distressing vision” for Afghanistan ’s future.
“We urge a thorough understanding of these laws and a respectful acknowledgment of Islamic values. To reject these laws without such understanding is, in our view, an expression of arrogance,” he said.Taliban vice and virtue laws provide ‘distressing vision’ for Afghanistan, warns UN envoyRefugee athlete’s dream of a taekwondo medal is cut short at Paris Olympics
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