Responding to Taliban Attacks on Women’s Rights

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Afghan women demonstrate for girls’ secondary schools to reopen, Kabul, Afghanistan, March 26, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Mohammed Shoaib Amin March 21: Taliban announce girls’ secondary schools will reopen March 23. March 23: Taliban announce girls’ secondary schools will remain closed until compliant with Islamic law. March 25: Taliban begin blocking women from air travel without a male family member. March 27: Taliban issue new rules banning women from parks in Kabul four days a week. These are the latest in a long string of broken promises and restrictions on the…

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