Since taking power in Afghanistan, the Taliban have assured that they will respect the rights of women and minorities.

But these statements are difficult to convince.

Afghan women remember the abuses committed against women between 1996 and 2001 under the former Taliban regime.

Many fear further persecution from the Taliban, whose promises remain unclear.

As this drawing by cartoonist Stellina shows, as soon as they entered Kabul, the Taliban began to erase the faces of women plastered on store windows, especially on beauty salons, which, in twenty years, had flourished in the city. capital city.

In mid-August, a photo illustrating these acts of vandalism went viral on social networks.

This image showed a man covering in paint the photo of a smiling bride displayed on a store window.

For women's rights defenders, this kind of scene shows that the Taliban want to keep women out of public space.

Stellina is a designer who lives in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan.

Most of his work is published in The News Lens International, a bilingual medium based in Taiwan and which mainly deals with Asian news.

Stellina has been working for this news website since 2017.

Cartooning for Peace is an international network of cartoonists committed to promoting, through the universality of press cartoons, freedom of expression, human rights and mutual respect between populations of different cultures or beliefs.

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