August 2021 to present day

Timeline of Taliban edicts and directives against women

August 13. 2021

Imams are ordered to prepare lists of unmarried women aged 12–45 for Taliban fighters to marry.

August 25. 2021

Women are ordered to stay at home because soldiers are not trained to respect women.

August 30. 2021

Co-education is banned and men are prohibited from teaching girls.

August 09. 2021

Women are banned from playing sports.

September 12. 2021

Girls are banned from secondary education.

September 12. 2021

Universities are ordered to enforce gender-segregated classrooms and hijabs for women.

September 17. 2021

The Ministry of Women’s Affairs is replaced with Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

September 20. 2021

Working women are ordered to stay home until further notice.

September 29. 2021

Women are banned from attending and teaching at Kabul University.

November 22. 2021

Women are banned from appearing on television dramas.

December 26. 2021

Women are banned from travelling long-distances (78 km) without a mahram (male relative escort).

December 26. 2021

Taxi drivers are banned from transporting women passengers without a hijab.

March 02. 2022

Women are banned from entering health centres without a mahram.

March 13. 2022

The strict enforcement of gender segregation is ordered in all offices.

March 23. 2022

The start of school year is postponed for girls beyond 6th grade.

March 27. 2022

Women are banned from travelling abroad without a mahram and without a legitimate reason.

April 06. 2022

Different days are established for men and women to visit parks.

April 29. 2022

Taliban announce three days a week for female and three for male university students and order female students to cover their faces in classrooms.

May 05. 2022

Taliban issue verbal order to stop issuing driving licences to women.

May 07. 2022

A decree orders women to appear in public in “proper hijab”, preferably the burqa, although the “first and best option” is to not leave home.

May 19. 2022

Female TV presenters on air are ordered to cover their faces.

July 18. 2022

Women employees of the Ministry of Finance are directed to send a male relative to take their jobs if they want to be paid their salaries.

October 07. 2022

Women are barred from taking university entrance exams for subjects deemed “too difficult”, including agriculture, mining, civil engineering, veterinary sciences and journalism.

November 10. 2022

Women and girls are banned from parks, public bathhouses and gyms.

December 20. 2022

Women are banned from private and public universities.

December 11. 2022

In different provinces, medical staff are directed not to examine female patients without a mahram; female health workers are told they can only work with a mahram.

December 24. 2022

All local and international NGOs in Afghanistan are ordered to stop employing women or face have their operating licences revoked.

January 28. 2023

Afghan girls are banned from taking university entrance exams.

March 04. 2023

Thousands of divorce cases granted during the Afghan Republic are declared invalid.

March 26. 2023

A protest in favour of women’s education in Kabul is “corralled”.

April 04. 2023

Afghan women are banned from working for UN entities.

May 05. 2023

Female doctors are banned from registering for the exit exam.

June 06. 2023

International NGOs are banned from implementing community-based education activities.