The Taliban has once again broken its promise to protect women's rights, asserting an extreme, sexist policy reminiscent of its rule of the country in the 1990s.
, in the hard-line Islamist government's latest break of its promise to allow women and girls to receive an education.... [+]The country's higher education minister reportedly announced the new policy in a letter Tuesday, obtained by the BBC and Associated Press, which is set to take effect immediately.significant limits on the subjects women could study in college, largely blocking them from fields like journalism, engineering and economics.
College classrooms were also segregated by gender, with young and middle-aged men banned from instructing female students.
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