Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers set up a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice” in the building that once housed the Women’s Affairs Ministry, escorting out World Bank staffers Saturday as part of the forced move.
It’s the latest troubling sign that the Taliban are restricting women’s rights as they settle into government, just a month since they overran the capital of Kabul. In their first period of rule in the 1990s, the Taliban had denied girls and women the right to education and barred them from public life.
See also:
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–Afghanistan’s Taliban Prohibit Girls From Attending Secondary School
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–Angry And Afraid, Afghanistan’s LGBTQ Community Say They’re Being Hunted Down After Taliban Takeover