The Malala Fund has sharply criticized the Taliban’s new penal code, warning that it intensifies systematic violence and restrictions against women and girls in Afghanistan . The organization states that this legal framework, alongside the morality laws, subjects women to corporal punishment and further erases their presence from public life .
According to the statement, the new code criminalizes women’s independence and speech while granting officials broad discretion to enforce rules arbitrarily . The Malala Fund has called on world leaders to take immediate action, stand with the Afghan people, and hold the Taliban accountable for what they describe as crimes against basic human rights .
Malala Fund: Taliban Penal Code Systematizes Violence Against Women
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