The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has raised concerns over the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan, stating that "Afghan women are deprived of basic rights."
The Taliban's Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice on Friday issued posters around the capital Kabul ordering Afghan women to cover up.
A law prohibiting child marriage was signed by President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte and came into force on Thursday, making child marriage illegal in the country.
In a sprawling settlement of mud brick huts in western Afghanistan housing people displaced by drought and war, a woman is fighting to save her daughter.
Taliban officials are taking new actions to restrict women's freedoms and dismantle democratic institutions as they appeal to the world to release frozen humanitarian aid funds and bank accounts.
In a move that can further tarnish the image of the Taliban in the international arena, the group banned the use of photos of women on storefronts in Kabul city.
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