Afghanistan: the Ministry for Women becomes that of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice
The religious police took up residence in what was until a month ago the Ministry of Women's Affairs and which is now the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, in Kabul on September 17. 2021. AFP - HOSHANG HASHIMI
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The Taliban have continued to put their regime in place since taking power on August 15.
On Friday, in Kabul, they closed the Ministry of Women's Affairs to replace it with that of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.
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With our correspondent in Islamabad,
Sonia Ghezali
The religious police took up residence in what was until a month ago the Ministry of Women's Affairs.
On the new panel hanging on the pediment of the building, we now read “Ministry of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice”.
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The Taliban are doing away with everything related to Afghan women
"
“
It's unhealthy,
” protests Samira Hamidi.
The South Asia campaigner at Amnesty International denounces the initiative of the new fundamentalist regime.
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The Taliban are eliminating everything related to Afghan women
," she said.
It also raises the question of the future of the 1,500 employees of the ministry, most of them women.
Dozens of them gathered in front of the building on Friday, September 17 to express their disagreement.
They were sent home.
The Taliban urged officials to return to work, but not the women.
They can only work in places where segregation is in place.
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Girls' education on hold
Schools in secondary education are subject to the same rules.
They reopen their doors in Afghanistan this Saturday, but only for boys.
Unicef has expressed concern about this.
Women certainly retain the right to study at university, but for this they will have to wear an
abaya
and a
hijab
and classes will be carried out as far as possible in single sex.
In addition, no woman is included in the new provisional executive presented in early September.
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The Taliban, in favor of a strict application of Sharia, the Islamic law, are making sweeping changes in the administrative system.
Changes reminiscent of their 1996 regime. Some voices in Afghanistan denounce the return to obscurantism.
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