A senior Taliban chief warned the United Nations Safety Council Friday to surrender its “failed coverage of stress” after members adopted a decision condemning Kabul’s rising restrictions on girls.
The decision, handed unanimously by all 15 Council members on Thursday, mentioned a ban on girls working for the world physique and NGOs in Afghanistan “undermines human rights and humanitarian ideas”.
The Council urged “all States and organisations to make use of their affect” to “promote an pressing reversal of those insurance policies and practices”.
Since ousting the foreign-backed authorities and returning to energy in August 2021, Taliban authorities have imposed an austere model of sharia that the United Nations has labelled “gender-based apartheid”.
Ladies have been barred from most secondary training and universities, prevented from working in most authorities jobs in addition to NGOs and blocked from public areas similar to gyms and parks.
Anas Haqqani, a senior chief within the Taliban motion however with no official authorities function, mentioned the council “should not proceed the failed coverage of stress”.
“Any place adopted, that’s not primarily based upon a deep understanding gained’t give the specified outcomes and can all the time be ineffective,” he mentioned on Twitter.
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He mentioned the council ought to as a substitute take away diplomatic and monetary sanctions positioned on a slew of officers which “quantities to the collective punishment of Afghans”.
Russian ambassador Vasily Nebenzia criticised the textual content of the decision regardless of signing it.
“We critically remorse and are disillusioned that steps and a extra formidable method and texts had been blocked by Western colleagues,” he mentioned.
“When you’re so honest, why not return the belongings you’ve got stolen from the nation and with none preconditions,” he mentioned, referring to the $7 billion in Afghan central financial institution belongings frozen by the US after the Taliban authorities seized energy.
The USA introduced in September the creation of a fund primarily based in Switzerland to handle half the cash.
Amnesty Worldwide welcomed the Safety Council decision however mentioned on Friday it “fell in need of setting out concrete steps” that member states ought to take to assist restore the rights of girls and women — and to carry Afghanistan’s rulers accountable.
The United Nations introduced on April 4 that the Taliban authorities had banned Afghan girls from working in its workplaces countrywide, a number of months after issuing an edict in opposition to Afghan girls working for NGOs.
The transfer sparked extensive opprobrium in addition to a UN evaluation of its Afghanistan operations, which is to final till Might 5.
The world physique has careworn “the dire financial and humanitarian scenario” in Afghanistan, in addition to the “essential significance of a continued presence” of the UN mission in Afghanistan and different UN companies.
UN Secretary-Basic Antonio Guterres has organised a gathering in Doha subsequent week with envoys from varied nations to “reinvigorate the worldwide engagement across the widespread targets for a sturdy approach ahead on the scenario in Afghanistan”.
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