The 29 bans the Taliban impose on Afghanistan women

1- Complete prohibition of female work outside their homes. Only a few doctors and nurses will be allowed to work in some hospitals in Kabul.

2- Complete prohibition of any type of activity of women outside the home unless accompanied by their mahram (close male kinship such as father, brother or husband).

3- Prohibition of women from closing deals with male merchants.

4-Prohibition of women from being treated by male doctors. Thread system.

5- Prohibition of women from studying in schools, universities or any other educational institution (the Taliban have turned girls’ schools into religious seminaries).

6- Requirement for women to wear a veil (burqa), which covers them from head to toe.

7- Whipping, beatings and verbal abuse against women who do not dress according to the Taliban rules or against women who are not accompanied by their mahram (her husband and guardian).

8- Whipping in public against those women who do not hide their ankles.
9- Public stoning of women accused of having sex outside of marriage (lack of work or hunger can easily pay the only way out of prostitution punishable by death).

10- Ban on the use of cosmetics (many women with painted nails have had their fingers amputated).

11- Prohibition of speaking or shaking hands with men who are not Mahram.

12- Prohibition of laughing out loud or singing (no stranger should hear a woman’s voice).

13- Women are prohibited from wearing shoes with heels, which can produce sound when walking (a man cannot hear a woman’s footsteps).

14- Ban on riding a taxi without your mahram.

15- Prohibition of women from having a presence on radio, television or public meetings of any kind.

16- Prohibition of practicing sports or entering any sports center or club.
17- Prohibition of women from riding bicycles or motorcycles.

18- Prohibition for women to wear brightly colored clothing. In Taliban terms, these are “sexually attractive colors.”

19- Prohibition of women from meeting on the occasion of festivities such as “Eids”, for recreational purposes.

20- Prohibition of women to wash clothes in rivers or public squares.

21- Modification of the entire nomenclature of streets and squares that include the word “woman”.
For example, the “Garden of Women” is now called the “Garden of Spring.”

22- Prohibition of leaning out of the balconies of their apartments or houses.

23- Mandatory opacity of all windows, so that women cannot be seen from outside their homes.

24- Ban on tailors to measure women and sew women’s clothing.

25- Women are prohibited from accessing public toilets.

26- Prohibition of women from traveling on the same bus as men. The buses are divided into “men only” or “women only”.

27- Prohibition of wearing flared pants, even if they are worn under the burqa.

28- Prohibition of photographing or filming women. They cannot appear in photos and videos. They do not exist.

29- Prohibition of publishing images of women printed in magazines and books, or hung on the walls of houses and shops. To all this barbarity must be added other “legislated” prohibitions such as: the prohibition of listening to music, watching movies, celebrating the traditional New Year because the holiday is “pagan”; having a non-Islamic name… Flying kites is also forbidden.