Women in Afghanistan becoming “prisoners of their own gender” | The World

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Some male TV newsreaders in Afghanistan are wearing face masks in protest of a new Taliban decree ordering female presenters cover their face. Since returning to power nine months ago, the Taliban has ordered all women to cover their faces in public and barred girls from attending school after the sixth grade. Najeeba Wazefadost, who fled Taliban rule in the early 2000s and is now the founder of the Asia Pacific Network of Refugees, tells The World women are becoming prisoners of their own gender.

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Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south; Iran to the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to the north; and China to the northeast.

Occupying 652,000 square kilometers (252,000 sq mi), it is a mountainous country with plains in the north and southwest. Kabul is the capital and largest city. The population is around 32 million, composed mostly of ethnic Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks.

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The Taliban or Taleban, who refer to themselves as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamist movement and military organization in Afghanistan, currently waging war within the country. Since 2016, the Taliban’s leader has been Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada.

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