Taliban’s Draconian Restrictions On Women

• August 2021

  Taliban instructs women to stay at home and avoid travel, just days after seizing power.

• September 2021

  • Women's Affairs Ministry scrapped and replaced by Ministry for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
  • Strict dress code and gender segregation enforced at universities.
  • Women banned from all sports.
• November 2021

  • Women ordered to be accompanied by a male guardian while visiting health-care facilities.
  • Women banned from appearing on TV entertainment programs.
• December 2021

  Women banned from traveling more than 72 kilometers from their homes without a male chaperone.

• January 2022

  Taliban resurrects its feared morality police, who enforce restrictions on women’s movement and appearance.

• February 2022

  Taliban imposes restrictions on beauty parlors, forcing many to close.

• March 2022

  Taliban reneges on its promise to open schools for teenage girls at the start of the new school year in Afghanistan.

• May 2022

  • All women ordered to cover their faces in public by wearing an all-encompassing burqa or a niqab, which is common in the Arab Gulf states.
  • Female TV presenters ordered to cover their faces with veils or masks with only their eyes visible.
• October 2022

  Women banned from applying for university courses such as journalism, engineering, economics, agriculture, and veterinary science.

• November 2022

  Women banned from using gyms and entering public bathhouses and parks.

• December 2022

  • December 20: Women barred from attending all public and private universities.
  • December 24: Taliban bans all local and foreign nongovernmental organizations from employing Afghan women.