Africa Business Radio

A group of 36 UN human rights experts say Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalising large-scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls. The experts say they are concerned about the continuous and systematic efforts to exclude women from the social, economic, and political spheres across the country. These concerns are exacerbated in the cases of women from ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities such as the Hazara, Tajik, Hindu and other communities whose differences or visibility make them even more vulnerable in Afghanistan.” Taxi drivers have been directed not to pick up female passengers who are not wearing a specific hijab.