Taliban publish decree on women's rights

However, the document does not mention their approach to education and work abroad.

The Taliban are under pressure from the international community, which has frozen funds for Afghanistan, thereby aiming to push the group towards respecting women's rights.

The woman is not owned, but free human being. No one can exchange it for peace or to end hostilities”, it was said in the Taliban decree issued by the spokesman Zabililah Mujeid.

In the decree, it has been said that women should not marry under compulsion and that widows should have access to their ex-husband's property.

Courts will have to take into account this decree when they make decisions and ministries on religious matters and information should promote these rights, it has been stated among other things in the decree.

During the regime passed in 1996-2001, Taliban have banned women from leaving without a family member, forced them to wear head coverings, and banned access to education.

The Taliban have said that they have changed since several high schools for girls in some provinces continue to be open.