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Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Wednesday issued the country’s first set of laws to discourage vice and promote virtue. They include a requirement for a woman to conceal her face, body and voice ou…

Women in Kabul, Afghanistan: 1950's, 1972 and 2013. Powerful pictures.

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A woman who prefers not to be identified cloaks herself inside a burqua. Afghan women were forced to wear the burqa at all times in public, because, according to one Taliban spokesman, "the face of a woman is a source of corruption" for men not related to them. In a systematic segregation sometimes referred to as gender apartheid, women were not allowed to work, they were not allowed to be educated after the age of eight, and until then were permitted only to study the Qur'an.

Mother dressed in Burqa, Afganistan.

Hazara, Afghanistan

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Kabul, Afghanistan

Women in burka watching the city of Kabul, Afghanistan.

Afghan women used to be championed by almost everyone. Now they’re all but forgotten.