Taliban-dominated Afghanistan, world’s “most repressive country” in women’s rights

Reporter: Soma Hayat

Rosa Ottenbayeva, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan on March 8th (International Women’s Day), said that the Country remains under Taliban control, the world’s most repressive country in the field of women’s rights.

“It is very sad to see their systematic and intentionful (Taliban) methods to isolate Afghan women and girls from society,” the OFFICE of the United Nations AssertiveNess Mission issued a statement Wednesday morning quoting Ottenbayeva as saying.

The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative also stressed that locking up half of the country’s population at home, one of the world’s biggest humanitarian and economic crises, is a detrimental measure at the national level.
In his words, this will condemn not only women and girls, but all afghans for future generations to poverty and aid dependency.” “This will also make Afghanistan more isolated from its citizens and the rest of the world.”

The UNAMA declaration stipulates that in September 2021, the ruling authorities suspended girls’ secondary education, despite public announcements to the contrary, with the start of the classes in March 2022, they extended the suspension for an undisclosed period, although the ruling authorities said they were going through the process and regulating the educational curriculum of schools of Islamic values and cultural norms, but no progress has been made. This item has not been viewed.

On International Women’s Day, the United Nations in Afghanistan again called on the country’s ruling authorities to lift restrictions on the fundamental rights of women and girls, according to the statement.

The current Kabul government has also said that the current Kabul government has focused almost exclusively on imposing laws that virtually lock up most women and girls at home.

According to UNAMA, these restrictions are in contravention of the human rights obligations set forth in the human rights and fundamental freedoms documents to which Afghanistan is a member state and is bound by them.

Women’s and girls’ rights must be restored immediately
Meanwhile, the UNAMA statement quoted Unison Davidian, the UN Women’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, as saying that Afghan women have shown incredible courage and resilience in facing continued and systematic elimination.

“The consequences of the Taliban’s harm on their citizens go beyond women and girls. This affects Afghans and will be tangible over generations. “To build an inclusive, peaceful and hopeful Afghanistan, the rights of women and girls must be restored immediately.”

In her statement, UNAMA stated that women human rights defenders who peacefully demonstrated were targeted by mayhem.