The UN resolution against women’s oppression in Afghanistan was adopted by 116 countries. The UN requires immediate changes from Taliban and requires a systemic turnover in relation to fundamental rights and freedoms.
The UN General Assembly condemned the systematic oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan on Monday. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
The resolution was adopted by 116 votes, the United States and Israel were against and twelve countries abstained. The text “expresses serious concern about a serious, worsening, extensive and systematic oppression of all women and girls in Afghanistan by Taliban”. As a strictly conservative Islamist armed movement, the Taliban “introduced an institutionalized system of discrimination and segregation that does not respect human dignity and excludes women and girls”, writes AFP.
The UN calls for the Taliban to abolish the laws that restrict the human rights of women and girls
Taliban returned to power in 2021 and limited the education of women and their work opportunities. At the same time, he prevented them from being part of many areas of public life. He also ruled the country between 1996 and 2001.
The UN Member States have called on the Taliban to “quickly reverse contradictory policies and practices”, including the laws that “extend the already unbearable restrictions on the human rights of women and girls and the fundamental personal freedoms of all Afghans”.
The resolution welcomed interviews in Doha, Qatar, which the UN initiated in 2023 to coordinate the international community’s approach to the Taliban authorities. She called on UN Secretary General Antónia Guterres to appoint a coordinator to facilitate this process.
The United States has rejected the resolution
The United States opposed resolution and refused to cooperate with Taliban. “Nearly four years after taking power, we continue the same interviews and negotiate with the same so -called Taliban officials to improve the situation in Afghanistan without demanding the results from them,” said US deputy Jonathan Shrier. “The United States will no longer further support their abominable behavior,” he added.
The Taliban returned to power after the conclusion of the Peace Agreement with the United States during the first term of office of President Donald Trump and the departure of foreign forces from the country. Russia became the first country to officially recognize the Taliban government last week.
