Hyderabad, Feb. 9 -- Under the Taliban regime, Afghanistan women face a harsh reality where their voices, bodies, and freedoms are systematically erased. Women and girls are being stripped of their autonomy, and forced into compliance with increasingly stringent laws that deny them their basic rights.

Oppressive rules that women in Afghanistan face

Amongitsrepressionofwomen's bodily autonomyistheforcedveilingofalltheirbodies and faces in public, underthethreat of arrest, violence and intimidation. The right to choose hijab or not has been weaponized against women with those accused of wearing "bad hijab" facing severe punishment.

Afghan women's voices are being literally silenced, as the Taliban has banned them from hearing each other....