{"id":10104,"date":"2022-05-17T10:42:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T10:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=10104"},"modified":"2022-05-17T10:42:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T10:42:03","slug":"female-un-staff-asked-to-observe-hijab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/05\/female-un-staff-asked-to-observe-hijab\/","title":{"rendered":"Female UN staff asked to observe hijab"},"content":{"rendered":"

KABUL (SW) –\u00a0The Ministry of Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil has called on female UN staff in Afghanistan to observe the hijab. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Heather Barr, <\/span>Associate women\u2019s rights director and former senior Afghanistan researcher at Human Rights Watch, posted a statement in this regard. “Taliban claim new women\u2019s dress rules are \u201cadvice\u201d but are imposing them as mandatory\u2014including on Afghan women working at UN. Here\u2019s a UN memo from yesterday, and poster Taliban placed outside UN compounds @UNAMAnews <\/span>how will you protect your colleagues\u2019 safety & freedom?”, she tweeted. <\/span><\/div>\n
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The statement said that employees of the Ministry of Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil came to the UN office in Kabul and asked them to wear the hijab while reporting to their duties. According to the statement, Ministry of Interior investigators have even asked to have access to the workplace of UN staff to see if the hijab is being observed.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The statement also said that the Ministry of Interior’s investigators have said well that they are examining the employees’ hijab and if they do not comply, they will politely talk to the employees without hijab and ask them to wear hijab because it is mandatory when leaving the house.<\/p>\n

UNAMA also said that a poster from the Ministry of Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil had been erected at the UN office in Kabul, stating, “According to Islamic law, a Muslim woman must observe the hijab.”<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil recently issued a decree requiring the hijab to be mandatory. In this decree, “black chador and hijab” were mentioned as examples of hijab and it was emphasized that it is better for women to leave the house only when needed.<\/p>\n

The order met with widespread reactions. Following the reactions, Akef Mohajer, a spokesman for the Ministry of Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil, released a video saying that the content of the decree had been distorted. According to him, it is not only obligatory to wear the burqa, but also the “Arabic hijab and chadar used in the country’s villages”, which is also considered a hijab.<\/p>\n

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