UN says Taliban is restricting Afghan women from working, seeking health care

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The Taliban are restricting Afghan women’s access to work, travel and health care if they are unmarried or don’t have a male guardian, according to a UN report published Monday.

In one incident, officials from the Vice and Virtue Ministry advised a woman to get married if she wanted to keep her job at a health-care facility, saying it was inappropriate for an unwed woman to work, said the report from the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.

The Taliban have barred women from most areas of public life and stopped girls from going to school beyond the sixth grade as part of

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