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Afghanistan crisis: Taliban order university women to wear niqab • FRANCE 24 English

FRANCE24, 06 Sep 2021
#Women will be allowed to attend #university as long as classes are segregated by sex or at least divided by a curtain, the #Taliban's education authority said in a lengthy document issued on Sunday. But female students must also wear an abaya (robe) and #niqab (face-veil), as opposed to the even more conservative burqa mandatory under the previous Taliban regime.

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