Fourteen months ago, the Taliban took control of Afghanistan after a nearly 20-year conflict, following the withdrawal of US troops from the country. This has resulted in increasing infractions on Afghan women's rights.
Human Rights Watch keeps a close eye on the many policies that are significantly depriving Afghan women of their basic rights.
Even though they claimed that women’s rights would be maintained and respected after the fall of Kabul, the Taliban strictly opposes education for women. All across the Taliban territories, women’s freedom of movement was also drastically limited, as they are not able to travel without a male guardian. A massive poster campaign was also launched to promote and encourage women to wear the burqa, covering the whole body from head to feet (Ibrahim, 202226). This systemic gender discrimination and segregation is set to have a huge impact on Afghan women’s lives and future (UN News, 2022). Their very little incorporation into social and political life decreases their capacity to push forward any policies that could limit their discrimination. In fact, more than 77% of women's civil society organizations had absolutely no funding in 2022 and 84% of women stopped working (UN women, 2022).
The UN has further identified in risk groups that are more likely to face harassment that reaches targeted killings, mainly journalists, women’s rights activists and former government employees.
The international community is concerned about the reversal and deterioration of Afghan women's rights. It needs to ensure that all mechanisms for monitoring human rights, including the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, Afghan human rights organizations, and foreign nongovernmental organizations, may operate and work freely (HRW, 2022). Closely overseeing and monitoring human rights violations in Afghanistan is crucial to restoring freedom to all women.
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Experts decry measures to ‘steadily erase’ Afghan women and girls from public life | | 1UN News. (2022, January 17). UN News. Retrieved October 19, 2022, from https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/01/1109902
How the International Community Can Protect Afghan Women and Girls | Human Rights Watch. (2021, September 2). How The International Community Can Protect Afghan Women and Girls | Human Rights Watch. https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/09/02/how-international-community-can-protect-afghan-women-and-girls
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