Local sources in Helmand say that today, Thursday (September 25), the Taliban announced in an official meeting with journalists that the publication of any video or photo of living beings in the media is prohibited.

Taliban’s Department for the Promotion of Virtue officials in Kandahar, through a new order, have prohibited male doctors from treating female patients and have threatened to imprison them in case of disobedience. This action, which practically deprives female patients of dental services in the absence of female doctors, has sparked a new wave of concerns about the systematic violation of women’s rights in Afghanistan.

The Afghan women’s refugee football team is set to participate in an international competition next month for the first time since the Taliban takeover.

Save the Children has warned that at least 11,000 pregnant women in the earthquake-affected areas of eastern Afghanistan are living in tents and difficult conditions and may have to give birth in these temporary shelters.