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DEC1-11122025

Taliban shuts five literacy centers for women in Panjshir and dismisses female teachers.

DEC5-11082025

Taliban authorities required female doctors and nurses in Herat to wear burqas while working.

DEC4-10282025

The Taliban have instructed hospitals in the southern provinces not to treat female patients without a male guardian (mahram).

DEC2-10222025

The Taliban prevented women known as “Friday Bazaar” vendors from entering the market in Herat.

DEC4-10212025

The Taliban subject female doctors in hospitals to humiliation and psychological harassment.

DEC12-10132025-B

The Taliban are conducting ideological inspections of doctors and staff at a hospital in Kabul.

DEC7-10072025

The Taliban shut down fiber-optic internet services in Kandahar for a second time in one week, disrupting economic activity, public services, and online education.

DEC1-10052025-B

Taliban authorities dismissed female literacy teachers in Kabul and Nangarhar and banned Teachers’ Day observances.

DEC1-10052025-A

Taliban authorities closed women’s literacy schools in Bamyan and dismissed female teachers.

DEC5-10022025

Academic promotion of university professors has been conditioned on having conduct and appearance aligned with Sharia.

DEC7-09232025

The Taliban ordered all video media in Herat—including television stations and online platforms such as YouTube—to cease broadcasting images and operate in audio-only format.

DEC7-09152025-A

Telecom internet services have been cut off in Kandahar.

DEC7-09152025-B

The Taliban ordered a multi-province shutdown of wireless and fiber-optic internet services, cutting off Wi-Fi access in Kandahar, Uruzgan, Helmand, Nimroz, and Balkh.

DEC7-09142025

The Taliban ordered a citywide shutdown of Wi-Fi and Fiber Optics internet services in Mazar-i-Sharif, cutting off fixed-line connectivity while leaving mobile internet operational.

DEC12-09112025

Taliban authorities denied Breshna employees entry to offices in Kabul for not complying with beard and dress requirements.

DEC7-09102025-A

Taliban suspend national television broadcasts in Balkh province under enforcement of the live-image ban.

DEC7-09102025-B

Taliban authorities in Kandahar halted the activities of YouTubers under morality laws banning images of living beings.

DEC2-09082025

The Taliban have barred female employees from entering United Nations offices and compounds in Kabul.

DEC2-09022025

The Taliban have reassigned dozens of female teachers to remote areas of Ghor province in an apparent effort to pressure them out of their...

DEC2-08282025

The Taliban have directed local community leaders to report any secretly operating women’s beauty salons in Kabul.

DEC1-08262025-A

Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesperson, described the issue of girls’ education as ‘a minor matter' when discussing the Taliban's 5 year national strategy.

DEC2-08262025

The Taliban have closed women’s goods stores in Khost province.

DEC2-08062025

Taliban raided women’s beauty salons and arrested female beauticians in Kabul.

DEC9-07282025

Taliban morality authorities in Kandahar imposed new rules requiring female employees to obtain a “mahram card” and be accompanied by a male guardian at...

DEC7-07202025

Taliban expand the ban of broadcasting of living images in Sar-e-Pul province, reportedly reaching 20 provinces.

DEC2-07082025

The Taliban order collection of zakat (taxes) from the people in Paktika without providing any public services.

DEC12-07082025

Taliban shut down men’s barbershops in a Kabul neighborhood for shaving beards and cutting hair deemed “Western".

DEC9-06042025

Taliban Department of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has instructed the Traffic Directorate to prevent women from driving in Herat.

DEC1-05202025

Taliban dismissed dozens of female kindergarten teachers and staff in Kabul through administrative termination lists, removing women from early-childhood education roles.

DEC2-05202025

Female employees of the United Nations have received death threats from individuals affiliated with the Taliban.