{"id":116375,"date":"2023-08-28T09:15:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T06:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/taliban-ban-women-from-national-park-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T09:15:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T06:15:49","slug":"taliban-ban-women-from-national-park-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/taliban-ban-women-from-national-park-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban ban women from national park in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116375\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThe Taliban have banned women from visiting one of Afghanistan\u2019s most popular national parks, adding to a long list of restrictions aimed at shrinking women\u2019s access to public places. Thousands of people visit Band-e-Amir national park each year, taking in its stunning landscape of sapphire-blue lakes and towering cliffs in the country\u2019s central Bamiyan province. The ban was announced after the acting minister of vice and virtue complained that women visiting the park had not been adhering to the proper way of wearing the hijab. \u201cGoing sightseeing is not a must for women,\u201d said Mohammad Khalid Hanafi as he asked security forces to begin stopping women from entering into the park.<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch (HRW) described the ban as the latest in a growing list of restrictions imposed on Afghan women. Since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, authorities have closed most girls\u2019 secondary schools, barred women from university and stopped many female Afghan aid staff from working. A raft of public places, including bathhouses, gyms and parks, have also been made off-limits for women. \u201cI\u2019ve heard more than one Afghan woman talk about how next the Taliban won\u2019t allow them to breathe,\u201d said Heather Barr of HRW. \u201cThat sounds very hyperbolic until you see them doing things like actually trying to stop women from being outdoors and enjoying nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, the park became a potent symbol of change after it was announced that four female park rangers had been hired, in a first for the country. More than two years after the Taliban\u2019s return to power it has become the latest plank in their systematic effort to push women out of the public sphere. Barr said: \u201cStep by step the walls are closing in on women as every home becomes a prison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The park ban also prompted comment from the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan. \u201cCan someone please explain why this restriction on women visiting Band-e-Amir is necessary to comply with sharia and Afghan culture?\u201d Richard Bennett wrote on social media. The Taliban have long held thatthey respects women\u2019s rights in accordance with the group\u2019s interpretation of Islamic law and Afghan customs.<\/p>\n<p>Barr said it was hard to conceive of any rational reason that this ban had been put in place. \u201cWhat explanation can you think of, other than cruelty?\u201d she asked. \u201cIt\u2019s a magical place to go because you see families laughing and picnicking and enjoying themselves,\u201d Barr said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s what the Taliban have just taken away \u2013 the ability of families to enjoy a day out together, with the women in the family being part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/27\/taliban-bans-women-from-national-park-in-afghanistan\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/taliban-ban-women-from-national-park-in-afghanistan\/\">Taliban ban women from national park in Afghanistan<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1045,677,11243,1360,606,607,608,568],"class_list":["post-116375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-ban","tag-nantional-park","tag-taliban","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}