📅 23 March 2022
On the day secondary schools reopened for the new academic year, Taliban authorities kept girls above grade six out of class, reversing expectations that they would return. The indefinite closure...
📅 3 April 2022
Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada issued a ban on poppy cultivation and narcotics production and trade. The decree sharply curtailed a major rural livelihood and global illicit-drug supply...
📅 21 August 2024
The de facto authorities published a morality law codifying rules that restrict women’s dress, movement, speech and public presence and empower morality inspectors. The law formalized and expanded...
📅 8 July 2025
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani. The Pre-Trial Chamber found reasonable grounds to...
📅 5 October 2026
The ICC unsealed 2025 warrants for Haibatullah Akhundzada, Abdul Hakim Haqqani, Habibullah Agha and Neda Mohammad Nadim over alleged gender persecution. Warrants do not establish guilt.
📅 8 July 2025
Judges issued warrants for Taliban Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani for alleged crimes against humanity, including persecution on gender grounds. The...
