UNHCR Afghanistan Women and Girls Factsheet - October 2024
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Background: Since the Taliban takeover in August 2021, the country’s 21.4 million women and girls have faced a systematic erosion of their fundamental human rights, including social, economic, and political. Edicts imposed by the de facto authorities (DfA) in 2022 and 2023 barred women from public office, employment with NGOs and UN Agencies, as well as education beyond the sixth grade, and have challenged humanitarian operations in Afghanistan. In 2024, the DfA further expanded these edicts, relating to female participation, dress code, restrictions on women working at humanitarian delivery sites, and imposed salary reductions for female government employees. In August 2024, the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (PVPV) promulgated the Morality Laws, which codify and expand existing discriminatory policies, such as mandatory dress codes and the requirement for women to have a male guardian (mahram), while also giving broad discretionary powers to inspectors from the PVPV to enforce t
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