Participation in Public Life

The right to engage in civic duties includes access to government roles, voting, and public debate. This section includes laws restricting public presence or political voice, particularly for women.
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DEC10-01152025

Taliban ban on women’s participation in mosque worship and Shia itikaf ceremonies in Herat Province.

DEC10-02192025

A Taliban commander shot and wounded six civilians during a football match in Shaki District, Badakhshan Province.

DEC10-05292024

Taliban fighters forcibly shut down the inauguration of a women-led coffee shop and library in Kabul.

DEC10-07112023-A

Taliban tear down Ashura flags of Shia mourners in Herat province.

DEC10-08132024

Taliban have made it mandatory to display the group's flag on shops in the city of Nili in Daikundi province.

DEC11-10182021

Taliban orders the arrest and punishment of twenty civic activists accused of opposing the regime.

DEC12-10262024

Taliban confirms ban on singing and bans women from reciting Quran aloud even in presence of other women under new verbal religious restriction, under...

DEC2-01052025

Taliban barred women producers from participating in a handicrafts and trade exhibition in Kandahar, allowing male family members to represent them.

DEC2-01062025-B

Taliban bar women from entering Breshna offices in Balkh Province to pay electricity bills, requiring payment through male relatives or alternative channels.

DEC2-01192025

Taliban dismiss 11 female employees from the Ministry of Justice.

DEC2-01252023

Female professors and employees at Kabul University have been allowed to visit once a month to personally sign in and collect their salaries and...

DEC2-01302022

The elimination of the Gender Directorate from the structure of the Taliban Ministry of Energy and Water.

DEC2-02282024

Mandatory hijab and threats to ban women from working in the media.

DEC2-04042023

The extension of the ban on women working in Afghanistan's United Nations organizations.

DEC2-05172022

Dismissal of three female professors from badakhshan University.

DEC2-06202023

The ban on female employees in migration aid organizations in Kandahar.

DEC2-07182022

Replace female employees in the Ministry of Finance with male members of their families.

DEC2-08092022

Prohibition of female flight attendants' employment at Ariana Airlines.

DEC2-09072021

The Taliban announce interim government, entirely male and without the inclusion of women, as well as the transformation of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs...

DEC2-09192021

Female employees in the municipality were forced to stay home.
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