Afghan Women Continue to Fight for Bodily Autonomy

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Afghan women walk past razor barricades along a roadside in Kabul on December 8, 2024. © 2025 Ahmad Sahelarman/AFP via Getty Images Since July 16, the Taliban have arrested dozens of women and girls in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, for allegedly violating Taliban dress codes. The slew of arrests mark yet another continuation of the Taliban’s relentless attack on women’s autonomy, causing fear and intimidation for women and girls across Afghanistan.The arrests deepen the Taliban’s enforcement of their outrageous August 2024 “vice and virtue” decree requiring women…

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