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Monthly Event Reports

July 2023 | Taliban bans beauty salons

A verbal decree by supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada banned all beauty salons in Afghanistan on 4 July, following bans on women and girls attending schools, working at NGOs, and visiting public areas such as parks. The decree is expected to result in more than 60,000 women losing their jobs and the shuttering of 12,000 businesses. The International Labor Organization told Reuters the decrease in women’s employment is expected to be significant, and that many women working in the industry are their family’s primary source of income.

March 2023 | Taliban civil society crackdown deepens

Human Rights Watch reported an expansion of the Taliban’s crackdown on journalists, women’s rights protesters, civil society activists, and humanitarian workers in what it described as an effort to crush all criticism as the path to political legitimacy. Those detained were denied access to lawyers and their family, and in most cases, authorities offered little or no explanation for the detentions, let alone how long detentions would last or under what legal pretext. In a separate statement, the United Nations Security Council urged the Taliban to relax its restrictions, worrying hunger and insecurity were taking an increasingly devastating toll on the country’s citizens.

January 2023 | Rules against female aid workers relaxed

The Taliban tacitly relaxed some restrictions on female aid workers working in health and nutrition. The Taliban had decreed in December that women would be banned from aid work for alleged failures to comply with its interpretation of Islamic clothing codes.

December 2022 | Taliban resumes public executions

The Taliban publicly executed a man in the Afghan city of Farah on 7 December, the first such execution since it returned to power in August 2021. United Nations officials condemned the execution as well as the Taliban’s reinstatement of public floggings, more than 100 of which have reportedly been carried out since 18 November 2022.

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GSoD Indices Data 2013-2022

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Basic Information

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Population Tooltip
39 835 430
System of government
Islamic Fundamentalist State
Head of government
Prime Minister Mohammad Hasan Akhund (de facto) (since 2021)
Head of government party
Taliban
Electoral system for lower or single chamber
Not applicable
Women in lower or single chamber
Not applicable
Women in upper chamber
Not applicable
Last legislative election
2018
Effective number of political parties Tooltip
Not applicable
Head of state
Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada (de facto)
Selection process for head of state
Direct election (two-round majority)
Latest Universal Periodic Review (UPR) date
21/01/2019
Latest Universal Periodic Review (UPR) percentage of recommendations supported
91.12%
Population Tooltip
39 835 430
System of government
Islamic Fundamentalist State
Head of government
Prime Minister Mohammad Hasan Akhund (de facto) (since 2021)
Head of government party
Taliban
Electoral system for lower or single chamber
Not applicable
Women in lower or single chamber
Not applicable
Women in upper chamber
Not applicable
Last legislative election
2018
Effective number of political parties Tooltip
Not applicable
Head of state
Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada (de facto)
Selection process for head of state
Direct election (two-round majority)
Latest Universal Periodic Review (UPR) date
21/01/2019
Latest Universal Periodic Review (UPR) percentage of recommendations supported
91.12%
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Human Rights Treaties

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Signatory Signatory
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United Nations Human Right Treaties
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
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International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
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International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
State Party
Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
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Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment
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Convention on the Rights of the Child
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International Convention on Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
No Action
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 
No Action
International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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International Labour Organisation Treaties
Forced Labour Convention
No Action
Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention
No Action
Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention
No Action
Equal Remuneration Convention
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Abolition of Forced Labour Convention
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Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention
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Convention concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment
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Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention
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Performance by category over the last 6 months

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Global State of Democracy Indices

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high 0.7-1.0
mid 0.4-0.7
low 0.0-0.4
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high 0.7-1.0
mid 0.4-0.7
low 0.0-0.4
Rule of Law
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mid 0.4-0.7
low 0.0-0.4
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high 0.7-1.0
mid 0.4-0.7
low 0.0-0.4
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Factors of Democratic Performance Over Time

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