UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Safety Council unanimously authorized a decision Thursday calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to swiftly reverse their more and more harsh restrictions on girls and women, which vary from very severely proscribing training to banning girls from most jobs, public areas and gymnasiums.
The council condemned the Taliban’s ban on girls working for the U.N., a call the decision calls “unprecedented within the historical past of the United Nations.”
When the Taliban seized energy in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO forces have been pulling out of Afghanistan after 20 years of struggle, they initially promised a extra reasonable rule than throughout their first stint in energy from 1996 to 2001. However there was a rising worldwide outcry as Taliban leaders have steadily reimposed their extreme interpretation of Islamic regulation, or Sharia, on girls and women.
The decision expresses “deep concern on the growing erosion of respect for the human rights and elementary freedoms of girls and women in Afghanistan by the Taliban” and reaffirms their “indispensable function” in Afghan society.
It calls on the Taliban to swiftly restore their entry to training, employment, freedom of motion and equal participation in public life. And it urges all different U.N. member nations to make use of their affect to advertise “an pressing reversal” of the Taliban’s insurance policies and practices towards girls and women.