Edict Type: By Month
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February 2024
In a letter from the Taliban’s Ministry of Public Health, medical institutions of higher education were instructed to cancel the ongoing semester for female students. Winter courses are deemed to fill the gap. The Taliban’s General Directorate of Intelligence directed government officials to avoid taking photos with women during aid distributions. A similar stance has…
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January 2024
In Logar province, the Taliban’s Vice and Virtue Department announced that women should avoid wearing white pants and refrain from wearing shoes that make noise. In Nangarhar, the same department issued a directive prohibiting dancing and singing during wedding processions or any other celebratory events. Furthermore, the Taliban Ministry of Education ordered the removal of…
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December 2023
The local Department of Economy, responsible for issuing registration to organizations, mandated that all new hires by local non-profits must receive clearance from the Department of Intelligence before beginning their roles. Additionally, the Ministry of Economy instructed both international and local organizations to avoid implementing projects focused on conflict resolution and peace, stating in their…
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November 2023
In Kunduz province, the Vice and Virtue police have mandated that all local media outlets submit their content for review before it can be published.In Faryab province, the Taliban imposed a ban on women working with media production companies, including photography and videography services.The Ministry of Economy has issued a directive to NGOs stating that…
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October 2023
In Bamyan province, dress shops owners were verbally warned not to sell fashionable and glittery women’s clothing anymore. Imams, religious figures, told the media in Helmand, to refrain from featuring women in their programs without prior approval. Women were also ordered to stop using social media. In the southern province of Uruzgan, the governor ordered…
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September 2023
The Taliban banned all mental health programs, particularly those aimed at women and girls. The Taliban Ministry of Public Health announced that any such programs operating outside their oversight must cease immediately. In Herat, male tailors were prohibited from sewing women’s clothing. To suppress dissent, the Taliban issued a warning that any political or musical…
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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. …