UNESCO has described the park as \u201ca naturally created group of lakes with special geological formations and structure.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Afghan women walk by a waterfall in the Band-e Amir National Park on August 12, 2022.<\/p><\/div>\n
However, now women are banned from visiting this beautiful place. Sayed Nasrullah Waezi, head of Bamiyan Ulema Council said that people have complained that female visitors were not observing hijab. \u201cWomen visitors were not following the rules and they were careless about hijab,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
An ex-Afghan female MP, Mariam Solaimankhil shared a poem on her X, known as twitter, and said \u201cwe will return, I\u2019m sure of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan called on the Taliban to explain the ban on women visiting the national park. \u201cCan someone please explain why this restriction on women visiting Band-e-Amir is necessary to comply with Sharia and Afghan culture?\u201d Bennett questioned in a twitter post.<\/p>\n
Rights defender says walls are closing in on women<\/strong><\/p>\n Meanwhile, Heather Barr, at Human Rights Watch, condemned the Taliban decision saying \u201cwalls are closing in on women\u201d in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n She added: \u201cNot content with depriving girls and women of education, employment, and free movement, the Taliban also want to take from them parks and sport and now even nature. Step by step the walls are closing in on women as every home becomes a prison.\u201d<\/p>\n It is worth mentioning that the ban on the visit in the national park is the latest in a long list of activities that women have been prevented since the return of the Taliban in the power in August 2021.<\/p>\n In the latest crackdown, the Taliban closed hair and beauty salons across Women also banned working outside the home<\/strong><\/p>\n Women are banned from working in most sectors outside the home, according to a UN report released in June. The women are already prevented from attending public baths, parks, and gyms.<\/p>\n The women are also not allowed to leave home with any result and must be accompanied by a male partner. The ban on women\u2019s visit to National Park compiled after a week-long visit to Afghanistan by Richard Bennett, who now seeks explanation from the Taliban on this decision.<\/p>\n \u201cWomen and girls in Afghanistan are experiencing severe discrimination that may amount to gender persecution \u2013 a crime against humanity \u2013 and be characterized as gender apartheid,\u201d the report found.<\/p>\n There is a grave concern about the absence of legal protections for women and girls, and the normalization of discrimination and violence against women.<\/p>\n According to the report, women and girls have no recourse to justice, and very limited access to female lawyers, who have not been issued licenses unlike their male colleagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Taliban has banned women from visiting one of Afghanistan\u2019s most popular national parks, a decision that says a lot about Taliban attitudes toward women that already prevented them from education and workplaces. Taliban\u2019s acting minister of virtue and voice, Mohammad Khaled Hanafi, in an astonishing announcement said that women were banned from visiting Band-e-Amir […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[736,1106,1515,503,1514,690,819,1513,796,764],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","tag-arrest","tag-girls-rights","tag-harassment","tag-headline","tag-national-park","tag-police","tag-restriction","tag-warning","tag-women","tag-women-rights"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nAfghanistan and in July, the Taliban banned women from attending the national university entrance exams nationwide.<\/p>\n