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Concerns are high for the women of Afghanistan following the Taliban’s swift takeover of the Middle Eastern country. The militant group says the rights of Afghan women will be respected "within the framework of Islamic law" under the regime, with a spokesman saying women would be free to work - but little detail about other rules and restrictions has been revealed.
Professor Vrinda Narain says women were subjected to persistent human rights violations under the Taliban’s brutal rule between 1996 and 2001 and, despite claims they’ve changed their stance on women’s rights, the Taliban’s efforts to commit thousands of women to sexual slavery demonstrate quite the opposite.
Narain is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She is also a board member of Women Living Under Muslim Laws. Her research and teaching focus on constitutional law, social diversity and feminist legal theory.
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