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The United Nations Safety Council on Tuesday stated it was “deeply alarmed” by the ruling Taliban’s ban on ladies attending college or working for help teams in Afghanistan.
In strikes broadly condemned by the worldwide neighborhood, the Islamist group final week ordered all native and worldwide non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to cease their feminine staff from coming to work and suspended college schooling for all feminine college students within the nation.
In its assertion Tuesday, the UNSC expressed its “deep concern” and known as for “the complete, equal, and significant participation of girls and ladies in Afghanistan.”
It additionally urged the Taliban to reverse its insurance policies, “which represents an rising erosion for the respect of human rights and elementary freedoms.”
The brand new restrictions mark one more step within the Taliban’s brutal crackdown on the freedoms of Afghan ladies, following the hardline Islamist group’s takeover of the nation in August 2021.
Though the Taliban repeatedly claimed it might shield the rights of women and girls, the group has completed the alternative, stripping away the hard-won freedoms for which ladies have fought tirelessly over the previous twenty years.
A number of the Taliban’s most hanging restrictions have been round schooling, with ladies additionally barred from returning to secondary colleges in March. The transfer devastated many college students and their households, who described to CNN their dashed desires of changing into medical doctors, lecturers or engineers.
At the least half a dozen main international help teams have stated they’re briefly suspending their operations in Afghanistan following the ban on feminine NGO staff.
The NGO ban would affect humanitarian operations within the nation, together with these of the UN, the UNSC assertion stated.
“These restrictions contradict the commitments made by the Taliban to the Afghan individuals in addition to the expectations of the worldwide neighborhood,” the UNSC added.
Writing on Twitter Tuesday, UN Secretary-Common Antonio Guterres stated the restrictions have been “unjustifiable human rights violations and should be revoked.”
“Actions to exclude and silence ladies and ladies proceed to trigger immense struggling and main setbacks to the potential of the Afghan individuals,” he stated.
