The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, urged the international community not to forget the “deeply worrying” situation facing Afghans, two years after the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan.
“The situation in the country remains deeply worrying, including the enormous restrictions imposed on the rights of women and girls. The international community cannot forget the people of Afghanistan,” said the Portuguese on Tuesday, on the social network X ( formerly Twitter).
Hours earlier, a UN spokesman had called on the Taliban to restore the dignity and rights that belong to Afghan women and girls.
“What we have seen are almost weekly setbacks in Afghanistan over the last two years, further and further away from the human rights to which Afghan women and girls are entitled,” Farhan Haq said.
The spokeswoman insisted on the need for a united front of the international community and called on “those who have influence” in Kabul to use it for the benefit of Afghan women and girls.
Also on Tuesday, the UN envoy for Global Education said the United Nations would support clandestine schools for girls in Afghanistan and fund online education for all girls forced to drop out of the education system after primary school.
According to the Efe news agency, the British Gordon Brown announced, in a virtual press conference, that he took the issue of the exclusion of women from schools in Afghanistan to the International Criminal Court.
The Taliban celebrated this Tuesday the second anniversary of the recapture of Kabul, which allowed them to regain power in Afghanistan 20 years after they were deposed by international forces, claiming achievements in security matters.
Founded in the early 1990s, the Sunni nationalist movement ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, when it was overthrown by a US-led coalition following the 9/11 terrorist attacks of that year.
The Taliban, who practice a strict interpretation of Islam, recaptured Kabul on August 15, 2021, after an offensive that led to the collapse of the administration backed by a United Nations force.
Despite the promises of change in relation to the first government, the restoration of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the official name of the regime, resulted in a reduction of rights, a worsening of the situation of the population and international isolation of the country.
Studies are impossible for girls, who can no longer attend university.
In the past two years, the Taliban authorities have imposed their austere interpretation of Islam, and women suffer severely under laws described by the United Nations as “gender apartheid.”
Source: TSF
