Taliban order women workers to stay at home

Instructions from the Taliban’s chief spokesperson came along with news that World Bank has suspended funding in Afghanistan, citing concerns for women’s safety, and little hours after UN calls for “transparent and expeditious investigation” into reports of human rights abuses since the Taliban took power.

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Mujahid said the home orientation would be temporary, allowing the group to find ways to ensure that women are not “treated disrespectfully”.“or” God forbid, the wounds. “He admitted that the measure was necessary because Taliban soldiers “are not trained” to respect women.

“We are happy that they are entering the buildings, but we want to make sure you don’t have any concerns, ”he said., we asked you to take time off from work until the situation returns to normal and procedures relating to women are established, then they can resume their work once it is announced. “

The last time he was in power, between 1996 and 2001, the militant group prohibited women from working, prevented them from leaving home without company, and forced them to cover their entire bodies with burqas. In addition, education was prohibited for women.

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The status of women in Afghanistan had made substantial progress under the government supported by the United States and Europe. Now, with the Taliban in power, they are once again losing their basic rights.

The group insisted that it will now be more “moderate”, but Taliban leaders have refused to guarantee that women’s rights will not be restricted and many have already suffered violence.

The The World Bank has announced that it is suspending its financial support to Afghanistan, out of concern for the plight of women under the Taliban regime., what does that suppose yet another blow to an economy heavily dependent on foreign aid. “We are deeply concerned about the situation in Afghanistan and the impact on the country’s development prospects, especially for women, ”said World Bank spokesperson Marcela Sánchez-Bender in a statement to CNN.

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In these months of the Taliban’s resurgence in Afghanistan, women are increasingly isolated from society and many face harassment and assault, including the murder of three female journalists in March.

Beginning of July, Taliban entered Bank Azizi offices in southern Kandahar and ordered nine women working there to leaveReuters reported. The cashiers were informed that their male parents would take their place.

Strong criticism of the UN and its Human Rights Council

Faced with the growing concern of the international community, The UN called on Tuesday, after an emergency meeting of its Human Rights Council, for a “transparent and rapid investigation” into human rights violations “committed by all parties to the conflict”. But the text, adopted by consensus after an extraordinary meeting of the body, does not provide for an international investigative mechanism, What claim NGOs and several countries, including the European Union, and is limited to asking the Commissioner for Human Rights, Michèle Bachelet, to present a report in the first quarter of 2022.

EThe body has been condemned by several NGOs for changing language after adopting the resolution proposed by Pakistan. John Fisher, Geneva director of Human Rights Watchsaid in a statement that the UN “has not created a strong human rights watchdog nor fulfilled its responsibility to protect the Afghan people”. He said that resolution “is a slap in the face for Afghan human rights defenders and women’s rights activists who watch in horror the rule of law collapse around.”

Bachelet report

How the Taliban treat women, especially with regard to their right to education, will represent a “red line” that the regime must not cross, warned the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet yesterday, that also revealed the existence of credible reports of “summary executions” carried out by Islamists.

“A critical red line will be how the Taliban treat women and girls and respect their rights to liberty; freedom of movement, education, personal expression and employment, in accordance with international human rights standards, ”the UN official said. Bachelet spoke before the Human Rights Council, a body that is seriously challenged because dictatorships are part of it.

The former Chilean president felt that “Ensuring girls’ access to quality secondary education will be an essential indicator of commitment to human rights”. This session took place at the request of Pakistan, in his capacity as coordinator of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for human rights and humanitarian issues, and from afghanistan, represented by Nasir Ahmad Andisha, diplomat of the previous ousted government, with the support of a hundred countries.

Andisha requested this instance of the The UN to send “a strong message to all parties, including the Taliban, for make them understand that human rights abuses will have consequences ”.

During the debate, some 60 countries have submitted a joint declaration, read by the Spanish representative Aurora Díaz-Rato, asking in particular “The immediate end of targeted killings of human rights defenders.”

Bachelet, who had evoked at the beginning of August “information indicating violations which could constitute war crimes” in Afghanistan, pointed out that he had received “Credible information on serious violations of international humanitarian law and attacks on human rights in many areas under Taliban control. It is, among others, “Executions of civilians and members of the Afghan security forces (…), restrictions on women’s rights (…), recruitment of child soldiers and the repression of peaceful demonstrations ”.