Afghanistan’s Taliban autocrats have issued a” special decree” outlining women’s rights under the governance, but getting an education or a job aren’t among them. The United States ate the decree but noted that further was demanded to insure women’s rights in Afghanistan.

Women’s rights activists in the country were entirely unimpressed, meanwhile, dismissing the new proclamation issued on Friday as Taliban posturing intended for the transnational community, not Afghan women.

The decree, attributed to Taliban supreme leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, bans child marriage and states that”no bone can force a woman to marry by compulsion or pressure.”

Child marriage and forced marriages are common across important of pastoral Afghanistan and have been for centuries — indeed under theU.S.- backed government that held sway for 20 times until the Taliban’s preemption in the summer. Girls are frequently given away as misters to resolve controversies and settle debts between rival lines and families. Low- income families will generally marry their youthful girls to much aged men in exchange for a large payment or dowry.

In 2018 and 2019, in the western businesses of Herat and Badghis alone, UNICEF registered 183 cases of child marriages and 10 cases of children being vended by their families. Last month UNICEF released a report in which the agency’s administrative director said she was”deeply concerned”with information that child marriage was on the rise in Afghanistan.

The Taliban’s protestation on Friday stated that”A woman isn’t a property, but a noble and free human being; no bone can give her to anyone in exchange of for peace deal or to end enmity.”

Tomas West, theU.S. special representative for Afghanistan, ate the decree allowing women to determine who they marry, but said” much further is demanded to insure women’s rights in every aspect of Afghan society including seminaries, workplaces, politics and media.”