Afghanistan's Taliban government formally adopts a set of moral laws, including an obligation for women to cover their faces.
When the Taliban returned to power three years ago, they took control of a country where Afghans' civil and political rights were enshrined in the constitution.
But since then, many of those rights have been eroded, especially for women and girls.
Now, Taliban officials have issued a new set of morality laws that will, in their words, “promote virtue and prevent vice.”
New laws in Afghanistan range from requiring women to cover their faces and men to grow beards to banning music in cars.
So will this latest crackdown further isolate the Taliban?
And what impact will it have on the lives of millions of Afghans already struggling to survive?
Presenter:
Hashem Ahelbarra
Guests:
Mariam Solaimankhil, Member of the Afghan Parliament in exile and member of the board of directors of the NGO Afghan Peace Watch
Bahar Jalali – Adjunct Professor at Loyola University Maryland
Mursal Wardak – Education and women's rights advocate and law student in Germany
