The Malala Fund said the Taliban’s newly issued penal code marks a further escalation in the repression of women and girls in Afghanistan, warning that it formally embeds what it described as “gender apartheid” into law.
In a statement on Monday, the advocacy group said the code, when combined with the Taliban’s Law on the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, creates a legal system designed to control, punish and exclude women and girls from public life.
