UN Reports Taliban's Ongoing Restrictions on Afghan Women

The Taliban are imposing severe restrictions on single and unaccompanied Afghan women, including limiting their access to work, travel, and healthcare if they are unmarried or lack a male guardian. They have enforced a dress code, shut down beauty parlors, and stopped girls from attending school beyond the sixth grade. The U.N. report highlights incidents where women were advised to get married to keep their jobs and detained for traveling without a male guardian. The Taliban's chief spokesman defended these actions as necessary for implementing Islamic law, while the U.N. expressed horror at the situation.