UN Women makes three recommendations to safeguard the rights and freedoms of women in the Asian country.
UN Women launched its first “Gender Alert” on Tuesday to denounce the “immediate and dramatic” impact that the arrival of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan on the rights of Afghan women and girls.
“The Gender Alert finds a rapid and worrying shift towards the normalization of discriminatory gender norms and a general reduction of the fundamental rights and freedoms of Afghan women and girls,” said UN Women in a report released today.
The text recognizes that all Afghan groups in the country have been “drastically impacted” since the Taliban seized power on August 15., but underlines that women and girls have suffered the most.
The agency ensures that key sectors and aspects of the Asian country such as work, education, health, protection, freedom of movement and participation in public life and politics have been affected.
“The evidence presented in this Gender Alert is clear: Despite the guarantees offered by the Taliban that women’s rights will be respected according to Islam, women and girls are experiencing a rapid decline in their rights,” he says. United Nations.
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Furthermore, it points out that the “ambiguous” positions of the Taliban regarding women’s rights “are only serving to deepen the setbacks of their rights.”
The UN emphasizes that the situation has worsened in a country that in 2019, still during the US occupation (2011-2021), was already ranked 166 out of 167 in gender equality.
The study, which aims to present “indicative trends” rather than provide exhaustive information, lists and details the main restrictions and obstacles that women face in moving, working or educating themselves, among other essential issues.
Recommendations for rights
In the report, UN Women makes three recommendations to safeguard the rights and freedoms of women in the Asian country.
First, it calls for the rebuilding of the Afghan women’s civil movement, developing strategic partnerships with civil society organizations and recognizing women not as “victims”, but as “equal” partners.
It also calls for “investing, supporting and promoting the participation of women in humanitarian assistance as an imperative to meet the needs of other Afghan women and girls.”
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Finally, it highlights the importance of establishing an independent mechanism to monitor human rights and collect information and research on women’s rights to “guarantee accountability under international human rights law.” (I)
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