"Every home becomes a prison:" Now, Taliban stops Afghan women from sightseeing

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Now, Taliban stops women from sightseeing: All ways Afghan women’s rights have been suppressed

“Not content with depriving girls and women of education, employment, and free movement, the Taliban also want to take from them parks and sport and now even nature, as we see from this latest ban on women visiting Band-e-Amir,” Human Rights Watch’s Associate Women’s Rights Director Heather Barr says.

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And a larger group; the vast majority of Muslim men, who favor this but don’t act on it much beyond voicing their support.

I'll just say that most of us are not like this, speaking as a Muslim guy from a Muslim country. Like seriously we've got some nutjobs here, but people who think women shouldn't be able to leave their homes are vanishingly rare (at the very least I've never seen any, and my social circle isn't particularly liberal).

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