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Taliban bans windows to stop women being seen · The Slippery Slope

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  The Taliban has now banned windows where women could be
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  seen inside of their homes. That's courtyards, kitchens,
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  wells and other places usually used by women.
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  The government spokesman announced a new order on acts
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  saying that these views should be blocked to prevent obscene
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  acts. And as well as banning the
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  construction of windows overlooking places used by
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  women, the supreme leader is calling for existing windows to
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  be blocked too. Women in Afghanistan already
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  can't read, sing or even speak in public because their voices
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  are labelled a source of temptation.
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  They have to be covered from head to toe.
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  And a ban for most work and education.
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  Women can't play sport or enter parks and can't even look at a
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  man who isn't their husband or blood relative.
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  Human Rights Watch say the Taliban has created the world's
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  most serious women's rights crisis.