... with a clause empowering marriage officers to find out whether a bride price was paid. 

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Many commenters said things like 'businesses should do more' to try to get women to go to work.

There was also talk about childcare as a way to make it easier for women to go to work.

Reportedly, lot of families also want to keep homeschooling their children rather than send them back to school.

Reports didn't really give an any numbers.

IUD insertion is free but removal can cost hundreds, so women are just removing them themselves and posting videos on social media.

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'If they don't kill us today, they'll kill us tomorrow,' a husband told a wife who worked as a teacher for years before being promoted to principal, after death threats began. She worked at a government-run school in an increasingly Taliban-controlled town. Schools are attacked by rockets and suicide bombers sometimes. The Taliban have their own schools. The couple moved to the city where Taliban holds no real sway, although some of her sons remained in the town.

A typical punishment for women: public whippings for an unmarried woman talking on the phone with a man. A married woman who did something similar could be hanged.

A local government head sitting at a local trial said to France24: 'Today, just like yesterday, all Taliban decisions must be in harmony with Islamic law. Whether it be stoning to death, decapitation, or mutilation of the hand, these are strong principles of Islam. They're strong principles of Sharia. And we will never change thm until judgement day.'

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