Media restrictions and implications for gender equality in Afghanistan

A UN Women report says that the Afghan media sector has “fundamentally changed for the worse,” under Taliban rule, with self-censorship and a systematic effort to muzzle the media and erase women from public spaces.
According to the report, harassment, attacks, and detentions, as well as the requirement that female TV anchors cover their faces, are all strategies used to eliminate women’s voices, faces, experiences, and perspectives from the public sphere.