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The Taliban's repression of women in Afghanistan is outrageous, the UN rights chief says

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Volker Türk says new morality laws that ban women’s voices and bare faces in public in Afghanistan are outrageous.

The Taliban have excluded women from most areas of public life and stopped girls from going to school beyond sixth grade.

They are also restricting women's access to work, travel and health care if they are unmarried or have a male guardian.