The United Nations has announced that the second conference on Afghanistan will be held on 18th and 19th February in Doha, Qatar. Women’s protest movements in Afghanistan have sent an open letter to the United Nations expressing their demands and concerns regarding the holding of the second meeting and the participation of special representatives from […]
The United Nations has announced that the second conference on Afghanistan will be held on 18th and 19th February in Doha, Qatar. Women’s protest movements in Afghanistan have sent an open letter to the United Nations expressing their demands and concerns regarding the holding of the second meeting and the participation of special representatives from regional and global countries.
The women’s protest movements in Afghanistan expressed their concerns in an open letter addressed to the United Nations on Wednesday, January 31st, which stated, “While the second special conference of the United Nations for Afghanistan is being held in Doha, the political, economic, social, and particularly human rights situation in Afghanistan has reached a crisis point.”
These movements have added, “The precarious situation has directly and indirectly impacted the lives of women more than any other aspect and has made them victims. Unlawful Taliban prisons are filled with innocent women who have been abducted and imprisoned on unjustified grounds. Similarly, the everyday rise in the graph of physical violence against women by the Taliban, mysterious killings, and suicides due to increasing violence and misogyny, and women’s lack of access to legal-judicial authorities are among the issues that have caused grave concern and strong protests among the protesting women.”
The women’s protest movements in Afghanistan have emphasized the importance of the presence of Afghan women protesters in such sessions, demanding the inclusion of representatives of the country’s protesting women in these sessions. They state, “The presence of representatives of women’s protest movements as one of the strong pillars against terrorism, genocide, and ongoing gender apartheid, in all international sessions related to the Afghan crisis, is essential and imperative.”
The protesting women deemed the outcomes of this assembly unacceptable and ineffective in the absence of qualified representatives from anti-Taliban groups and protesting women.
