Watch: Taliban replace women's ministry with Ministry of Virtue and Vice

The Taliban replaced the Ministry of Women's Affairs with the Ministry of Virtue and Vice on Friday, acting contrary to the promise of safeguarding women’s rights.

Signs for the country's women's ministry were replaced with those of the Taliban's moral police, Reuters reported, adding that female employees of the department were locked out of the building.

According to photographs, a sign for the building read, "Ministries of Prayer and Guidance and the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.”