New Taliban Restrictions on Women in Public Point to a ‘Distressing Vision’ for Future of Afghanistan, UN Says

The Islamic fundamentalists now require women to conceal their faces, bodies and voices outside the home.

AP/Ebrahim Noroozi
A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group at Kabul. AP/Ebrahim Noroozi

The Taliban’s new vice and virtue laws that include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public provide a “distressing vision” for Afghanistan’s future, a top U.N. official warned Sunday.

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