UN Condemns Rigid New Taliban Family Decree

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GENEVA: The United Nations has issued a stark warning over a new Taliban family law regulation, declaring that the decree deeply institutionalises systemic discrimination against Afghan women and girls.

The 31-article ‘Principles of Separation Between Spouses’ code, officially approved by supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, establishes strict hardline rules for marriage and divorce.

Most controversially, the text explicitly dictates that an unmarried girl’s silence upon reaching puberty constitutes legal consent to marriage. While the law permits child marriages arranged by male relatives, it forces wives seeking an annulment or judicial separation to navigate arbitrary barriers in conservative courts.

Furthermore, the UN highlights that the decree blocks judges from granting separations for domestic violence if the abuse can supposedly be curbed by other means, further stripping vulnerable women of their basic autonomy and legal protections.