U.N. rights chief on Tuesday reiterated Taliban should instantly revoke their insurance policies focusing on girls and women in Afghanistan, criticizing “terrible” penalties.
“No country can develop – indeed survive – socially and economically with half its population excluded,” Volker Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, stated in an announcement.
“These unfathomable restrictions placed on women and girls will not only increase the suffering of all Afghans but, I fear, pose a risk beyond Afghanistan’s borders.”
He stated the insurance policies risked destabilizing Afghan society.
“I urge the de facto authorities to ensure the respect and protection of the rights of all women and girls – to be seen, to be heard and to participate in and contribute to all aspects of the social, political and economic life of the country,” stated Turk.
On Saturday, Afghanistan’s Taliban administration banned girls from working in non-governmental organizations. The Taliban have already suspended college training for ladies and secondary education for ladies.
“This latest decree by the de facto authorities will have terrible consequences for women and for all Afghan people,” Turk stated.
“Banning women from working in NGOs will deprive them and their families of their incomes, and of their right to contribute positively to the development of their country and to the well-being of their fellow citizens.”
The transfer is the most recent blow in opposition to girls’s rights in Afghanistan because the Taliban reclaimed energy final 12 months.
“The ban will significantly impair, if not destroy” these NGOs’ capability to ship important companies, Turk stated, calling it much more distressing with Afghanistan within the grip of winter, when humanitarian wants are at their highest.
Women have additionally been pushed out of many authorities jobs, prevented from touring with no male family member and ordered to cowl up outdoors of the house, ideally with a burqa, and never allowed into parks.
The worldwide neighborhood has made respecting girls’s rights a sticking level in negotiations with the Taliban administration for its recognition and the restoration of support.
“Women and girls cannot be denied their inherent rights,” stated Turk.
“Attempts by the de facto authorities to relegate them to silence and invisibility will not succeed.”
