What does PVPV stand for?

Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Taliban)

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Military and Government

Other Resources:

<< Previous	Abbreviation Database Surfer		Next >>
Platte Valley Public Power and Irrigation District (Nebraska) Posterior Vitreous Penetration Ratio Phan Vietnamese Psychiatric Scale (mental disorder questionnaire) Portable Vapor/Particle Sampler Post-Vasectomy Pain Syndrome Prairie View Prevention Services, Inc. (drug and alcohol prevention; South Dakota) Permanent Virtual Path Tunneling Predictive Value of Positive Test Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District (California) Portal Venous Peak Velocity (hepatology)		Player vs Player vs Environment (gaming) Parti Vert du Québec (French: Quebec Green Party) Perinatal Values Questionnaire Personal Verification Questions (security) Portrait Value Questionnaire Pre-Visit Questionnaire Predictive Vector Quantization Pressure Vessel Quality (steel plates) Pyramid Vector Quantization Pajaro Valley Quilt Association (Australia)

Samples in periodicals archive:

The campaign has faced opposition from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, which has accused members of mingling with girls inside malls.

Saudi men told how to stop flirting, harassing women

Summary: A group of Saudi's launched a group on a popular social networking website called The Facebook Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice and have so far to attracted more A group of Saudi's launched a group on a popular social networking website called The Facebook Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice and have so far to attracted more than 500 members.

Saudi religious police launch Facebook group

Ibrahim Abdullah Al-Howaimel, deputy president of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, said that, according to the commission's experience, mixed-working environment is the cause of most cases of women being blackmailed, and that this is one of the negative effects of the Internet.

Online criminals risk jail sentences, fines

Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Humain was appointed as the new head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice which controls the religious police, replacing Sheikh Ibrahim al-Ghaith.

Saudi woman becomes deputy minister

The promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice is done in the mosques and not in the streets," Al Najar added.

Religious police in Yemen are illegitimate - scholar

Othman al-Othman, head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Riyadh, known as the Muttawa, told the Saudi edition of al-Hayat daily that the commission has started enforcing the edict.

Ban on pet sales

Saudi religious police ban pet cats and dogs

The kingdom applies sharia law as the law of the land and the religious establishment largely controls education, the all-male judiciary and the policing of "public morality" through the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.

Saudi women treated like children, says human rights group