UN: Further violations by TBN make it more difficult Int.. community to interact with this group.
UNAMA asked the Taliban to clarify some of the provisions of the law.
UNAMA said in a statement on Saturday that the international community is in good faith seeking constructive engagement with Taliban officials.
The Taliban's enjoining good law imposes extensive restrictions on individuals' personal behavior while giving the ministry's accountants broad executive powers, the agency said.
Rosa Otunbayeva, head of UNAMA's Kabul office, said this was a disturbing view for Afghanistan, where accountants have unlimited powers to threaten and arrest individuals based on extensive and sometimes vague lists of violations.
The Taliban's justice ministry recently announced that the group's leader had signed the law on enjoining good and forbidding evil, which is now in force.
The new law also has a worrying impact on religious freedoms in the country by completely ignoring the diversity of Afghanistan's religious community, restrictions that also affect the work of journalists and the media, UNAMA said in a statement.
The Taliban said in a statement that it was reviewing the impact on the Afghan people and international humanitarian aid to the country.
The signing of the law has sparked widespread reactions, with various countries calling on the Taliban to lift restrictions against women and girls.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that restricting people's rights and keeping them in constant fear will make it more difficult for the international community to engage with the Taliban.
Farzana Ahmadi
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