Most girls in Afghanistan put on a headband for spiritual causes.

United Nations:

The United Nations Security Council will meet on Thursday to debate an order by Afghanistan’s Taliban for ladies to cowl their faces in public, a return to a signature coverage of the Islamist group’s previous hardline rule and an escalation of restrictions.

U.N. particular envoy for Afghanistan, Deborah Lyons, is because of temporary the 15-member council, mentioned Norway’s U.N. mission, which requested the closed-door assembly “to address the increased restrictions on human rights and freedoms of girls and women.”

Under the Taliban’s earlier rule from 1996 to 2001, girls needed to cowl up, couldn’t work, and women have been banned from faculty. But after seizing energy in August, they vowed to respect girls’s rights.

However in March, the Taliban backtracked on their announcement that prime colleges would open for ladies, saying they might stay closed till a plan was drawn up in accordance with Islamic legislation for them to reopen.

Then on Saturday the group’s supreme chief, Haibatullah Akhundzada, mentioned that if a girl didn’t cowl her face outdoors residence, her father or closest male family member can be visited and face potential jail or firing from state jobs.

Most girls in Afghanistan put on a headband for spiritual causes however many in city areas resembling Kabul don’t cowl their faces.

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