Afghan ladies and supporters across the globe are standing up — or, on this case, singing — in solidarity after the Taliban launched new guidelines that prohibit ladies’s voices from being heard in public.
Video captured an Afghan lady, Taiba Sulaimani, who lives in Toronto, singing an Afghan tune about breaking free from oppression, Storyful reported.
The Taliban final week issued the nation’s first set of legal guidelines stated to stop vice and promote advantage. They embrace a requirement for a girl to hide her face, physique and voice exterior the house.
Sulaimani is amongst ladies in Afghanistan and outdoors the nation who’ve been recording themselves singing in response to the ban.
A 23-year-old graduate from the northeastern a part of the nation, Efat additionally joined the protest and posted a video of herself singing open air in Afghanistan.
“No command, system or man can shut the mouth of an Afghan lady,” she instructed The Related Press. “Should you shut one a part of the physique of an Afghan lady, one other half will work.”
In keeping with the UN, the new legal guidelines embrace requiring ladies to put on garments that fully cowl them from head to toe, and never journey on public transport if unaccompanied by a person.
The UN has referred to as for the legal guidelines to be repealed