Item Summary

Rights and Freedoms “This report begins with a short background to the law and the ministry, including a brief look at a more recent law, promulgated in August 2025, that outlines new procedures and ways of implementation. The report then moves on to its main subject: how citizens, especially women, experience Amr bil-Maruf and how enforcers experience their work. We hear how fearful it has made many women and their families, acting to discourage them from leaving the house at all, or only rarely, or only with a man, but that the law has also inspired defiance. The report includes personal testimonies concerning Amr bil-Maruf punishments. It highlights the anomaly of vice and virtue enforcers being tasked with policing women when the law makes it illegal for unrelated men and women to interact – a contradiction that has opened a space up for abuse. It also explores geographical variations in how the state polices morality.”

Descriptive Information

Title
Law, control, fear - and some defiance : citizens and enforcers talk about the 'promotion of virtue and prevention of vice'
Sort Title
law, control, fear - and some defiance : citizens and enforcers talk about the 'promotion of virtue and prevention of vice'
Creator of work
Clark, Kate
Contributor
Shapour, Roxanna and Reid, Rachel
Publisher
Kabul : Afghan Analysts Network (AAN)
Language
English
Date Created
2025
Format
Reports
Provenance
Library of Congress, Islamabad
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated

Discovery Information

Subject
Gender and sexuality
Women
Human and civil rights
Freedom of expression
Human rights
Politics and government
Laws
Geographic Subject
Afghanistan
Geographic Origin
Afghanistan

Physical Characteristics

Page Count
53
File Count
53

Institutional Information

Collection
Born Digital Monographic Reports and Papers
Box number
Monographic Reports and Papers (Publicly Accessible)
Folder number
5773496d-0c87-4025-920c-6c08b60b478b
Barcode
5773496d-0c87-4025-920c-6c08b60b478b
IIIF Manifest URL

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