According to the United Nations, the law imposes strict behavioural restrictions and gives the morality police broad enforcement powers.
The law paints a worrying picture for Afghanistan's future. (…) Moral authorities can threaten or arrest anyone without limit, pointing to widespread and vaguely defined abuses.
Roza Otunbayeva, head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), explained in the statement.
Law of Enjoining Virtue and Forbidding Vice It imposes further restrictions on the rights of Afghan women and girls. Otunbayeva added that it ignores religious diversity in Afghanistan and imposes new restrictions on journalists and the media.
The head of the mission also warned that if they continue to restrict the rights of the Afghan people, they may make it difficult for the international community to cooperate with the Taliban leadership.
In the announcement, two articles of the law were positively evaluated, namely the prohibition of the abuse of orphans and the prohibition of the practice that leads to sexual assault, under which young boys can be used for personal entertainment until now.
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