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Afghanistan: Taliban orders female UN staff to wear hijab  Hijab
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Afghanistan: Taliban orders female UN staff to wear hijab 

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | 18 May 2022, 08:58 am

Kabul: Afghanistan's Taliban rulers issued yet another bizarre diktat as they directed female staff members of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) to wear the hijab, media reports said.

The direction was issued by the  Taliban’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.

The organization shared its direction given by the Taliban with its employees on Monday.

" Taliban claim new women’s dress rules are “advice” but are imposing them as mandatory—including on Afghan women working at UN. Here’s a UN memo from yesterday, and poster Taliban placed outside UN compounds.@UNAMAnews how will you protect your colleagues’ safety & freedom?" tweeted Heather Barr, Associate Director of the Women’s Rights division at Human Rights Watch.

The Taliban came to power in Afghanistan last year on Aug 15.

Since then, the group has imposed several restrictions in the country.

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