Taliban Replace Women’s Affairs Ministry with Virtue and Vice Department

Taliban replaced the Ministry of Women's Affairs with the Ministry of Virtue and Vice on Friday, acting contrary to the promise of safeguarding women’s rights.

Signs for the women's ministry were replaced with those of the Taliban's moral police, Reuters reported, adding that female employees of the department were locked out of the building.

Photographs revealed that a sign for the building read, "Ministries of Prayer and Guidance and the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice."

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The Taliban have already stated that women will not be allowed to work while they will have access to education.

On their part, female employees say that they were not allowed to report to work and were told to go back home every time they tried.

Accordingly, several women employees of the department took to the streets to protest after they were barred from entering the building in Kabul.

"I am the only breadwinner in my family," said a woman who worked in the department. "When there is no ministry, what should an Afghan woman do?" she asked.