Should Women In Afghanistan Worry?

I'm sure many are with the re-forming of the Vice and Virtues Ministry. This was the part of the Taliban that employed the men who walked around the streets and beat women who didn't follow the "rules", closed schools for girls and banned TV.
(AP)"Afghan women and girls face increasing insecurity, and it's more important for the government to address how to improve their access to public life rather than limit it further," said Zama Coursen-Neff, senior researcher for Human Rights Watch. "Reinstatement of this controversial department risks moving the discussion away from the vital security and human rights problems now engulfing the country."With the Taliban making it's presence known again and now this, where is this headed?
Under the Taliban, the ministry's enforcers would harass women whose head-to-toe burqa veils were not sufficiently all-covering, and men whose beards were not sufficiently long, and at times carted off offenders to their own ministry jails. They prevented women from working, begging or home-schooling girls and enforced measures through public beatings and imprisonment.



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