After pledging a softer version of their brutal and repressive regime of the 1990s, the Islamic fundamentalists are tightening their control of women's freedoms one month after seizing power.
The Taliban on Friday appeared to shut down the former government's ministry of women's affairs and replaced it with one that earned notoriety during their first stint in power for enforcing religious doctrineThe acting mayor of the capital Kabul has said any municipal jobs currently held by women would be filled by men.
While the country's new rulers have not issues a formal policy outright banning women from working, directives by individual officials have amounted to their exclusion from the workplace.A new Taliban government announced two weeks ago had no women members. But since returning to power on August 15, the Taliban have shown no inclination to honour those rights.
In Kabul on Friday, a sign for the ministry for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice was erected at the building housing the old government's ministry for women's affairs building in the capital.
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