{"id":13034,"date":"2026-05-14T11:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/14\/taliban-publishes-new-divorce-regulations-womens-rights-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:15:19","slug":"taliban-publishes-new-divorce-regulations-womens-rights-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/14\/taliban-publishes-new-divorce-regulations-womens-rights-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Administration Issues New Divorce Regulations after Leader&#8217;s Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Justice has announced that the decree concerning the separation of married couples, after being approved by the administration&#8217;s leader, has been published in the official gazette and is now enforceable. This decree sets a new legal framework for the separation of husband and wife under various circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry&#8217;s statement, the legal document includes a preamble, two chapters, twelve sections, and thirty-one articles that explain different conditions and cases for divorce. The details specify the situations under which a request for separation can be made.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the decree grants the judge the authority to issue a divorce ruling if the specified conditions are met and upon the couple&#8217;s request. However, it remains unclear how the enforcement mechanisms of this decree will operate and what guarantees will be in place to protect women&#8217;s rights during judicial proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>While the Taliban administration speaks of organizing family affairs based on its interpretation of Sharia law, women&#8217;s rights activists have previously raised concerns about widespread restrictions on women&#8217;s rights and freedoms within the judicial and social structures. The publication of this decree has also raised questions regarding how fairly it will be implemented in practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Justice has published new divorce regulations after leader approval, raising concerns about women&#8217;s rights protections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}