Women Pose in Colourful Clothes to Protest Taliban’s Black Hijab Mandate

"This is Afghan culture," wrote one of the many women who participated in the campaign and put her picture online.

In the wake of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, some laws and customs have come into the picture that a lot of women in Afghanistan find backward and offensive.

One of them is the mandate for women to wear black hijabs when they are out in public. This is not the only rule that has been implemented; educational institutions have made it mandatory for men and women to sit separately, videos of which had previosuly gone viral online.