Edict Type: By Month
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October 2022 Month
Women students cannot choose subjects that are “too difficult” to study, including agriculture, mining, civil engineering. Men teachers and students were ordered to sign a pledge of observing Sharia. Women can no longer be on the Commission of Media Violations.
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September 2022 Month
Attending religious classes became mandatory for the public servants. They must also pass the test of faith. Girls were banned from secondary and high schools in east Afghanistan that had briefly opened. Women students were banned from taking videos and photos on university campus. Media outlets were ordered that women guest speakers must cover faces…
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August 2022 Month
The Taliban has targeted religious minorities and in August 2022, the regime removed Ashura, a religious holiday for the Shia minority as a public holiday. Women flight attendants were fired and banned from their jobs. Attending religious classes in universities are mandatory per the Taliban order. The order added five new classes to the curricula…
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July 2022 Month
Taliban officials ordered women employees of the finance ministry to send a male relative to their jobs instead.
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June 2022 Month
Girls from grade 4-6 were ordered in Ghazni to cover their faces while commuting to school or face expulsion.
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May 2022 Month
Women are banned from receiving driver’s licenses Women cannot use public transport if they are alone. A Taliban decree stated that women should only leave their homes “in cases of necessity” and avoid going out. The Taliban began a campaign for proper hijab. They stated that the best form of hijab is to stay home…
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April 2022 Month
Parks segregated, and men and women to visit parks on different days of the week. TikTok and PUBG banned. The Taliban say it Banned TikTok and PUBG insisting they were leading Afghan youths astray. University classes became segregated — three days for women and three days for men. New hijab order was issued by the…
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March 2022 Month
Women are not allowed to seek medical treatments without a mahram. Women’s and men’s offices were segregated. All foreign TV series are banned. Schools will remain closed for girls beyond grade 6. Another statement a few days earlier had promised that schools will reopen, but the Taliban walked back on their promise. The new year…
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February 2022 Month
Ordered NGOs to replace board members and those in leadership positions with Afghans living inside Afghanistan. Ordered universities to enforce gender-segregated classrooms. Banned women from traveling abroad without a mahram/male guardian and a legitimate reason. The Taliban Supreme leader issued an order that the academic documents issued by the first Taliban regime are valid and…
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January 2022 Month
Closed public baths for women in Balkh. Ordered coffee shop owners in Herat not to serve women if a mahram/male family member does not accompany them.