HebrideanUltraTerfHecate on Nostr: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjev9kzxeqqo By law women are not allowed to be ...
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By law women are not allowed to be heard outside their houses, although in practice this is not being strictly enforced. Teenage girls are prevented from accessing secondary and higher education. Women are barred from many forms of employment. In December, women training as midwives and nurses told the BBC they had been ordered not to return to classes.
While women continue to be visible on the streets of cities like Kabul, they are required to wear a face covering.
Fariba*, a young graduate who lives with her parents in Kabul, has been unable to find work since the Taliban came to power. She tells the BBC there is "significant concern that surveillance cameras may be used to monitor women's hijabs [veils]". The Taliban say only the city police have access to the CCTV system and the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Ministry – the Taliban's morality police - does not use it.
But Fariba is concerned the cameras will further endanger those opposed to Taliban rule. "Many individuals, especially ex-military members, human rights advocates and protesting women, struggle to move freely and often live in secrecy," she says. "There is significant concern that surveillance cameras will be used to monitor women's hijabs too," she says.
Some of the cost of installing the new network is falling on ordinary Afghans who are being monitored by the system.
In a house in central Kabul the BBC spoke to Shella*, who was asked to pay for some of the cameras installed on the streets near her home.
"They demanded thousands of afghanis from every household," she says. It's a large amount in a country where those women who have jobs may earn only around 5,000 afghanis ($68; £54) a month. "If families refused to pay [for the cameras], they were threatened with water and power cuts within three days," Shella adds. "We had to take loans to cover the costs.
"People are starving - what good are these cameras to them?"
By law women are not allowed to be heard outside their houses, although in practice this is not being strictly enforced. Teenage girls are prevented from accessing secondary and higher education. Women are barred from many forms of employment. In December, women training as midwives and nurses told the BBC they had been ordered not to return to classes.
While women continue to be visible on the streets of cities like Kabul, they are required to wear a face covering.
Fariba*, a young graduate who lives with her parents in Kabul, has been unable to find work since the Taliban came to power. She tells the BBC there is "significant concern that surveillance cameras may be used to monitor women's hijabs [veils]". The Taliban say only the city police have access to the CCTV system and the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Ministry – the Taliban's morality police - does not use it.
But Fariba is concerned the cameras will further endanger those opposed to Taliban rule. "Many individuals, especially ex-military members, human rights advocates and protesting women, struggle to move freely and often live in secrecy," she says. "There is significant concern that surveillance cameras will be used to monitor women's hijabs too," she says.
Some of the cost of installing the new network is falling on ordinary Afghans who are being monitored by the system.
In a house in central Kabul the BBC spoke to Shella*, who was asked to pay for some of the cameras installed on the streets near her home.
"They demanded thousands of afghanis from every household," she says. It's a large amount in a country where those women who have jobs may earn only around 5,000 afghanis ($68; £54) a month. "If families refused to pay [for the cameras], they were threatened with water and power cuts within three days," Shella adds. "We had to take loans to cover the costs.
"People are starving - what good are these cameras to them?"