Since taking over Afghanistan's western city of Herat on August 12, the Taliban have instilled fear among women and girls by searching out high-profile women, denying women freedom of movement outside their homes, imposing compulsory dress codes, severely curtailing access to employment and education, and restricting the right to peaceful assembly. For the women in Herat we spoke to, life as they knew it had vanished overnight. Many women had been employed outside their homes or were students and played active and often leadership roles in their community. But after the Taliban’s arrival, they found themselves trapped indoors, afraid to leave their house, with their access to education and employment fundamentally changed or ended entirely. For these women, the best-case scenario is to be unharmed but forced to live a drastically diminished existence. The worst-case scenario is to be arrested or attacked for their past achievements or for their fight to keep their hard-earned rights. |
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