Human Rights Watch: The Taliban’s actions against women go beyond misogyny

The head of the women’s section of Human Rights Watch has said that the Taliban’s actions against women go beyond misogyny.

Reacting to a recent Taliban order that female mannequins and women’s propaganda sculptures in shops beheaded, Heiner Barr, head of the women’s section of Human Rights Watch, wrote on her Twitter page: “They cannot even cope with the public presence of female mannequins.”

“We are preparing a list of violations of women’s rights by the Taliban,” she added.

Meanwhile, the Chamber of Guilds, Craftsmen and Shopkeepers in Herat province has recently ordered shopkeepers to collect female sculptures and photographs from their shops, in accordance with the Taliban’s command to promote the good and forbid the bad.

A letter issued by the Taliban’s Office for Promoting Virtue and Prohibiting Virtue in Herat states that shopkeepers should refrain from using propaganda materials that are contrary to the religion of Islam and the Prophet’s Sharia.

The letter also states that women’s advertising sculptures should not be displayed in shops.