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Women wearing burqas at a market in Kabul in September 2021, one month after the Taliban seized control for the second time.. The treatment of women by the Taliban includes the actions and policies by two distinct Taliban regimes in Afghanistan which are either specific or highly commented upon, mostly due to discrimination, since they first took control in 1996.
Women's rights in Afghanistan are severely restricted by the Taliban.In 2023, the United Nations termed Afghanistan as the world's most repressive country for women. [4] Since the US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban gradually imposed many restrictions on women's freedom of movement, education, and employment.
February 21: Uruzgan helicopter attack kills 27-33 civilians including four women and a child in Uruzgan province. Spring: Operation Moshtarak Phase I is led by US Marines to retake Marjah, in Helmand Province, from the Taliban. Spring-Summer: U.S. Surge to Afghanistan sees its peak, as 20,000 soldiers are deployed to the south
Women in Afghanistan will now be forbidden from speaking and showing their faces in public.The country’s Taliban rulers issued the ban under new laws. They were approved by Afghanistan’s ...
The Taliban are banning women from using gyms in Afghanistan, an official in Kabul said Thursday, the religious group's latest edict cracking down on women's rights and freedoms since they took ...
The last U.S. troops left Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021. Three years later, the Taliban's return to power has allowed al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to regain a presence in the country, and ...
Taliban pass decree that all women should be banned from employment. [22] 1998: August: Afghan Civil War (1996–2001): The Taliban captured Mazar-i-Sharif, forcing Abdul Rashid Dostum into exile. 11 August: Destruction of the Puli Khumri Public Library by the Taliban. The library contained over 55,000 books and old manuscripts and was ...
In a statement released on the International Women’s Day, the U.N. mission said that Afghanistan's new rulers have shown an almost “singular focus on imposing rules that leave most women and ...