{"id":13337,"date":"2026-05-19T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/19\/uk-parliament-warns-taliban-domestic-enforcement-womens-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T08:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:00:22","slug":"uk-parliament-warns-taliban-domestic-enforcement-womens-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/19\/uk-parliament-warns-taliban-domestic-enforcement-womens-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Parliament Warns of Taliban&#8217;s Role in Domestic Enforcement of Women&#8217;s Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mostafa Sheikh, head of the Iqbal Centre for Contemporary Islamic Studies at the University of Leeds, told a session in the UK Parliament that the Taliban regime, by imposing strict regulations, has turned men into enforcers of restrictions against women. He explained that the Taliban&#8217;s envisioned penal structure is designed in such a way that each household becomes a site for implementing the regime-approved rules. According to him, this approach extends supervision and control over women beyond official institutions, embedding it at the family level as well.<\/p>\n<p>These remarks come amid the Taliban administration&#8217;s extensive restrictions over recent years on women&#8217;s education, work, and social presence in Afghanistan\u2014restrictions that have faced ongoing criticism from human rights organizations and the international community.<\/p>\n<p>Experts warn that the continuation of such policies could profoundly challenge family structures and social relations in Afghanistan, further increasing pressure on women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Parliament hears warnings that Taliban policies turn Afghan men into enforcers of harsh restrictions on women, intensifying family and social control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}