Taliban Enforces New Vice Laws Targeting Women’s Voices and Visibility

• The Taliban has issued new laws banning women’s voices and bare faces in public, approved by supreme leader
• The laws, part of a 114-page document, cover public transportation, music, shaving, and celebrations, and are the first formal vice and virtue laws since the Taliban's 2021 takeover.
• Women must veil their bodies and faces in public, and their voices are not to be heard singing, reciting, or reading aloud.
• The laws also ban the publication of images of living beings and the playing of music, among other restrictions.
• A U.N. report highlights the ministry's role in creating a climate of fear and expanding its oversight into media and drug addiction.

Source: Associated Press