Edict Type: By Month
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August 2023 Month
During a visit to the Bamyan province, the Taliban Minister of Vice and Virtue ordered that women are no longer allowed to visit the Band-e Amir national park.
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July 2023 Month
All women-run beauty salons were forced to close. Taliban’s Directorate of Preaching & Propagation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a letter to its representatives in provinces and overseas, instructed them to perform daily prayers collectively and to adjust their appearance according to Shariah and the Prophet’s sunnah. The Taliban abolished the Attorney General’s…
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June 2023 Month
A letter from the Ministry of Higher Education orders to refrain from using certain words in their lectures and research. Many of the examples are in Farsi Dari. Taliban orders all international organizations to stop all education programs in Afghanistan and hand them over to the Taliban. The Ministry of Vice and Virtue announced that…
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May 2023 Month
Women are barred from visiting health clinics and graveyards. If women and girls still go, the order demands that their men in the family must be arrested and punished. Men (staff and teachers) must keep their beards long if they want to keep their positions in the education department in the eastern province of Khost. …
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April 2023 Month
The Taliban ordered the UN that Afghan national female staff were barred from work at the UN. Some “400” women work for the UN in Afghanistan. Women are barred from going to restaurants in Herat. Previously, restaurants were segregated. The Shia community was ordered to celebrate Eid, a religious holiday in Islam, per the Taliban…
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March 2023 Month
New laws were announced, making it impossible for women to escape and divorce abusive husbands. Many women fear their divorces under the previous republic government could be voided, forcing them to return to their former husbands. Girls were barred from starting the new academic year in universities. Only boys were allowed. Men and women were…
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February 2023 Month
Taliban ordered women medical staff members to observe full black hijab with mask at all times. Women in the medical field in Kandahar were told they must be escorted by a male family member. Women’s karate club was forced to close. Intermarriages among Sunni and Shia were forbidden in the north of Afghanistan, in Badakhshan…
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January 2023 Month
Women are banned from visiting historic sites. Poets told not to compose musical proses. High school graduate girls were told they are not allowed to take the university entrance exam. The sale of contraceptives was banned, telling people it is a “western conspiracy.”
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December 2022 Month
Taliban ordered that women students can no longer attend public or private universities until further notice. Girls beyond grade 6 are not allowed to attend private courses. Girls can pursue education in religious subject matters only. Taliban banned women from working with I/NGOs.
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November 2022 Month
Women can no longer go to public baths in Badghis. Women can no longer go to parks and gyms. Taliban Supreme Leader ordered Sharia law punishment, including public amputations and stoning.