On Sunday, a group of Afghan women gathered in Kabul to demand the right to work and study under the Taliban’s new government.
Fundamentalist insurgents have enforced draconian rules on girls’ education and women’s engagement in public life since the Taliban retook power after a two-decade war.
Over a dozen women demonstrated outside the former Afghan Women’s Affairs Ministry, which the Taliban renamed the Department for the “Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.”
As demonstrators yelled “women’s rights and human rights,” one sign said, “A society in which women are not active is [a] dead society.”
