No school. No work. Not speaking outside. No healthcare without a fast rare female provider. No dissatisfaction. No justice.
This is a terrible reality for women and girls in Afghanistan since the acquisition of Afghanistan’s Taliban four years ago. Taliban attacks are making life unbearable. From August 15, 2021, over 100 edits Target the fundamental rights, freedom and legal protection of women and girls.
These addicts refused women to leave their homes without Maharam, show their faces, or even speak publicly. Last year, the situation worsened when Edits were coded in the law, leading to their violations legally punishable offenses.
The law represents the most extreme form of gender-based oppression in modern history to promote virtue and vice prevention. Afghan women rights activists have described these laws and versions as imprisonment for women, a driving “Epidemic of suicidal thoughts.” The situation is so severe that it meets the norms of “Gender apartheid,
Sadly, the international community has attracted its attention from the systematic harassment of women in Afghanistan by failing to maintain its commitments, protecting risky Afghans and failing to meet serious human needs. The Taliban’s gender was encountered with apartheid, many similar countries that were staunch protector of women and girls rights in Afghanistan for decades and supported their progress, they were upset. Instead of tying diplomatic engagement to the benchmarks and applied consequences of measuring human rights, some countries have begun to consider Taliban functions to be normal and reopen the embassies and consulates inside the country quietly inside the country.
As the need for international support increases, the international community is failing to move steps. When it provides money, it is unexpected and reactive. There is a devastating effect on 23.7 million Afghans in the need for global deficiency in funding for humanitarian aid.
World Food Program recently stated that One of the three Afghan children is stopped due to acute food insecurityStates should continue to provide funds for life-saving humanitarian aid-which includes food and healthcare-and funds important programs that support the rights of Afghan women and girls. In human settings, girls’ early marriage is a common reaction to crises.
In Afghanistan, Families facing intense economic difficulty have sometimes got married or even sold their daughters to face it.A woman Told us“Family wants their daughters to marry soon and in exchange for money … so that they can meet the expenses of the rest of the family.”
Some countries have gone beyond ignoring the situation in Afghanistan and have actively threatened the risky Afghans. In recent months, Iran has sent back more than 1.5 million weak Afghans in Afghanistan, where they risk imprisonment and death. Pakistan is doing the same, forcing it more than this 300,000 people,
America has a special duty for women of Afghanistan. During the 20 -year war, the US made a strong commitment to improve the good of women and girls. That commitment is now abandoned, and a destructive deal with the Taliban and return from Afghanistan.
Now, the US has also eliminated its temporary protective status for the Afghans in the country, ending an important route for legal status in the US, it will actually force many Afghans, who stood with the US and risk our lives while fighting for the values that we are dear to leave America, put them in danger and exposed them to give serious threats.
Other nations such as the United Kingdom are also ending their Afghan transfer and aid policy and Afghan civil rehabilitation scheme programs – major rehabilitation routes.
These decisions and adjacent exile give place to Afghans – many of which are at risk to pursue human rights or support the international alliance – in severe danger and expose them to serious punishment. Afghan women and girls are being left for the most terrible fate.
The hard progress of the last 20 years has been lost. Taliban would like us to think that these disadvantages are irreversible, but many Afghan women and girls do not believe that it is true – they still hope and continue working for a better future.
In a recent survey of more than 420 Afghan women by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security, more than 67 percent of the respondents stated that they had the ability to create positive changes in their communities, despite the overall reference to Taliban control.
Despite reporting negative results from their work to strengthen peace and safety – including community exclusion, mental health effects, and loss of economic opportunity – women reported a continuous commitment to this work and shared several priorities, including legal support, capacity building and need for money. Most of the women respondents also felt that their work of pursuing peace and security gave them personally positive community effects. Despite obstacles, they are not giving up.
There are clear measures that international communities can do to improve conditions for women and girls. States should oppose the generalization of the oppressive rule of the Taliban. International actors should use an right-based approach to all their busyness with the Taliban, while restoring and enhancing humanitarian aid and restoring and expanding rehabilitation routes for risky Afghans.
The United Nations may lead a coordinated approach to the association with the Taliban, establishing accountable measures under the International Law. State and International Organizations can work together to facilitate women’s participation in multilateral political processes related to Afghanistan and ensure that all international engages are royal, inclusive, and Afghans carry forward the rights of the people.
For example, UN -led Doha Process Earlier dialogues should integrate the representation of Afghan women at all levels since their exclusion as the Taliban’s retrograde policies have provoked the retrograde and reducing the international community’s length. And the international community should interact, clear, and constantly communicate that the Taliban’s deteriorating attack on women and girls will not be tolerated.
The Taliban would want to quietly back down the battle for a peaceful, justified and inclusive Afghanistan. Afghan women and girls refuse to accept that Afghanistan is a “lost reason”. The international community should rally behind them.
Ambassador Melan Verveer is the executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security and serves as the first US Ambassador for global women issues. Maryam is the executive director of Safi Drops AfghanistanAn Afghan organization focused on policy research and development studies.
