An Afghan woman sporadically shows her face and sings in a video that is part of the online protest against a law forbidding women from public speaking along with dozens of other women.
This com emerged recently amongst the Taliban that any behavior of a woman should include 35 articles demanding a woman when she leaves her home cover her face, body and even her voice.
In other words, the Taliban prevented Afghan women and international civilized society using social networks in advocating for the defeat of the Taliban; for that women posted videos that contained their singing and the associated hashtags such as ‘My voice is not forbidden’ and ‘No to Taliban.’
In one of the videos, ‘shot inside Afghanistan’, a woman dressed in black from head to toe, with the rest of her face covered and a black long sheet covering most of her body too is observed singing.
‘You have silenced any utterance of my words within reach for the foreseeable future… you have domesticated and confined me within the walls of my house, me suffering in the first of the crime, being a woman,’ she explained.
Women activists raised videos showing themselves tearing pictures of Hibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban supreme leader who resides in Afghanistan, and is an absolute ruler with his state being in Kandahar.
‘For a woman’s body is the temple so her voice is the voice of justice,’ form a chant by activist groups in turn.
In another, X user Taiba Sulaimani takes some time to adjust her veil in front of the mirror.
‘It is not a shame for a woman to speak, it is her most divine part of identity and it should not be hidden’, she elucidates further.
The so called ‘Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice’ among other morality related laws, legalises practices that were already in practice after Taliban took control in 2021.
It states women should not be allowed to sing or recite loud in public or be heard outside of their homes.
According to this statement, ‘If an adult lady is forced to leave her house for whatever reason, she is unable to hide only her skin, but also her face and vocal cords’.
The law cites women’s voices as “aurat”, which in Islamous law clothe relates to other bodily parts which are to remain covered by both males and females.
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When the Taliban took over, they enforced Islamic laws to the letter.
Taliban authorities portrayed such laws as borderline sharia and seyeda al moderate voice of the officials Signa was baffled describing the criticism directed towards their law as ineffective and arrogant.
Restrictions have sought the educational activities and the general out-of-home activities and some of the employment that the United Nations describes as ‘gender apartheid,’ due to which women have suffered the most in the past three years and include few such restrictions.
These changes have also been disdainfully disregarded by the UN and other organizations that focus on international law due to the fact that they supplement their non-legal approach to the problem.
On Tuesday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called for the law to be repealed rather quickly ‘as it is completely unacceptable.’
The law, attitudinally, ‘cements policies that obliterate women visibility in the public sphere embedding till their voices are silenced and individual will power exhausted making effort to making them non-descript and without speech, said a spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani which is attempted to feminists’ war.
