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Amu: Following their takeover in August 2021, the Taliban swiftly dissolved Afghanistan’s Ministry of Women’s Affairs and replaced it with the PVPV ministry. While the Taliban have described the change as a return to Islamic governance, rights advocates and Afghan citizens have criticized it as a move to institutionalize repression, particularly against women and girls. Taliban officials have likened the PVPV’s work to that of “frontline jihadists.” At a public event, Taliban Minister Mohammad Khalid Hanafi declared, “Just as martyrs stood at the frontlines in jihad, the Ministry of Virtue now leads the frontline of Islamic governance.” Click here to read more (external link).