The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has announced that the morality police of the caretaker government are monitoring health centers and shops to prevent the presence of women without a male guardian.
In its latest report on the human rights situation, released the organization stated that the morality police in Kandahar instructed cosmetic shops and other women’s goods stores not to sell any products to women without a male guardian.
The report noted that on May 21, during a visit to a health center in the Deh Rawood district, the Taliban’s morality police emphasized that female patients without a male guardian should not benefit from health services.
The report also mentioned that the morality police stated that female health workers must also be accompanied by a male guardian during working hours.
UNAMA highlighted that government forces in Logar also warned a woman who had come to the market to buy food that she should not come without a male guardian again.
UNAMA stressed that government forces slapped the shopkeeper who sold goods to this woman and detained him. It was reported that this shopkeeper was released after signing a written commitment not to sell goods to women without a male guardian in the future.
Additionally, in June, in Badakhshan province, morality police interrogated women who had come to the market for shopping because they were without a male guardian and did not have “appropriate hijab.”
