The Latest: Taliban replace women's government ministry

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers person replaced the women’s ministry with an all-male “vice and virtuousness ministry" tasked with enforcing the group’s rigid mentation of Islam.

The determination Saturday was the latest to harken backmost to the group's harsh 1990s regularisation that imposed heavy restrictions connected women.

The Taliban wrong the caller ministry said they had not been informed astir wherever oregon if a caller women’s ministry was being planned.

Also connected Saturday, unit from the World Bank’s $100 cardinal Women’s Economic Empowerment and Rural Development Program were escorted disconnected the grounds.

A programme member, Sharif Akhtar, who was escorted retired with his staff, was astatine a nonaccomplishment to explicate however oregon if the programme could continue.

— By Kathy Gannon

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council has unanimously approved a solution stressing that Afghanistan’s caller Taliban rulers request to found an inclusive authorities with “the full, adjacent and meaningful information of women and upholding quality rights.”

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The solution adopted by the U.N.’s astir almighty assemblage connected Friday extends the existent mandate of the U.N. governmental ngo successful Afghanistan for six months. It besides stresses “the important relation that the United Nations volition proceed to play successful promoting bid and stableness successful Afghanistan.”

The resolution, drafted by Norway and Estonia, fundamentally delays a determination by the Security Council connected a caller mandate for the U.N. mission, known arsenic UNAMA, until March 17, 2022, giving members clip to measure the actions of the Taliban authorities successful the coming months.

In a associated connection to the council, Norway and Estonia said the solution “sends a unified connection that we basal down the U.N.’s efforts successful Afghanistan going forward.”

The solution ensures that the U.N. ngo tin proceed to show and study connected quality rights, protecting civilians, violations and abuses against children, “and to enactment the full, adjacent and meaningful information of women successful each levels of decision-making.”

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