Afghan girls demand their rights underneath Taliban rule
Several Afghan girls gathered in Kabul on Sunday to demand the best to work and research underneath the brand new Taliban-run authorities.
Since the Taliban’s return to energy after a two-decade conflict, the fundamentalist militants have issued restrictive guidelines on ladies’ training and ladies’s participation in public life.
Over a dozen girls protested exterior the premises of what was the Afghan Women’s Affairs Ministry — till the Taliban turned it into the division for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice.”
“A society in which women are not active is [a] dead society,” one signal learn as protesters chanted, “women’s rights and human rights.”
Female staff ordered to remain residence
According to the Associated Press information company, the Taliban’s interim Kabul Mayor Hamdullah Namony mentioned on Sunday that feminine staff have been ordered to remain residence, pending an additional choice.
Afghan girls’s rights defenders and civil activists protest to name on the Taliban for the preservation of their achievements and training, in entrance of the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Reuters)
Namony mentioned exceptions had been made for girls who couldn’t get replaced by males. “There are some areas that men can’t do it. We have to ask our female staff to fulfill their duties. There is no alternative for it,” he was quoted as saying by the AP.
Women in a number of areas throughout Afghanistan have been instructed to remain residence from each private and non-private sector jobs. But the Taliban haven’t but introduced a uniform coverage in the direction of girls’s work.
What is the Taliban’s stance on girls’s rights?
During the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan within the late Nineties, the Islamist militants enforced hard-line insurance policies towards girls, together with publicly beating those that dared to enterprise exterior with out overlaying their whole our bodies.
After the Taliban seized energy final month, they tried to strike a conciliatory tone, vowing to uphold human rights and respect girls’s rights “within the limits of Islam.”
So far, they’ve forbidden ladies from attending secondary faculty and instructed universities to segregate courses by gender. The Taliban additionally named a brand new Afghan Cabinet with no girls in ministerial positions.
Hundreds of ladies have taken to the streets to protest these restrictions over the previous month. Their demonstrations have principally been met by power from Taliban fighters.
