Taliban replace ministry for women in Afghanistan with one restricting them
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) Afghanistans new Taliban rulers set up a ministry for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice in the building that once housed the Womens Affairs Ministry, escorting out World Bank staffers Saturday as part of the forced move.
Its the latest troubling sign that the Taliban are restricting womens 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.
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In Kabul, a new sign was up outside the womens affairs ministry, announcing it was now the Ministry for Preaching and Guidance and the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.
Staff of the World Banks $100 million Womens Economic Empowerment and Rural Development Program, which was run out of the Womens Affairs Ministry, were escorted off the grounds Saturday, said program member Sharif Akhtar, who was among those being removed.
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