_{Afghan women walk on a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 9, 2022. Ali Khara/Reuters}

Last week, the Taliban banned women’s voices and bare faces in public under new laws in Afghanistan.

United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk has urged the Taliban to repeal several laws passed last week, saying that they reduce women in Afghanistan to “faceless, voiceless shadows.”

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