Girls’ high school is Burned out In Fariab.The bank employees in Kandahar are send home, Because they are women.A female reporter is Running, For fear that she will become a target.
The rapid advancement of the Taliban in Afghanistan has drawn attention to women and girls in the country.
“The Taliban’s oppression of women is not on the fringe of their ideology. This is its foundation,” Sarah Keeler of the Canadian Women’s Organization for the Promotion of Women in Afghanistan said Friday.
“We are angry at the silent reaction of the international community.”
During the U.S. withdrawal, Taliban militants occupied three more cities on Friday, including Kandahar and Herat. The Afghan government forces are on the verge of collapse.
Photos posted on the Taliban’s social media website show weapons, trucks and even helicopters in the hands of armed fundamentalist groups.
The United States and Britain have sent troops to Kabul to evacuate embassy staff, and an intelligence officer warns the capital May drop in 90 days.
The prospect of returning to Taliban rule has raised widespread concern that the abuse of women during the organization’s previous rule will recur.
Between 1996 and 2001, women and girls were prohibited from going to school, ordered not to go out to work, and forced to stay indoors unless accompanied by male relatives.
Afghan lawmaker Fawzia Koofi said this week that women are once again confined to their homes in areas occupied by the Taliban’s current offensive.
“Women in many places are told not to leave their house without a male member,” she reportedly said Kabul now.
She called for respect for women’s rights.
But on Friday, the Taliban called its military achievement a “God’s victory”, but avoided detailing its plans against women, and its actions were not reassuring.
80% of the 250,000 Afghans who have fled their homes since the end of May are women and children. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said on Friday.
“In areas now controlled by the Taliban army, there are reports of girls being raped, and a decree has been issued requiring families to hand over girls 15 and over and widows under 45 to Taliban soldiers in order to force them to marry Taliban soldiers,” Keeler said in a statement to Global News.
“Just as they were under Taliban rule, women are reportedly prohibited from leaving home unaccompanied, prohibited from working, living under a mandatory dress code, and violently beaten or whipped by members of the Taliban.”
Write on the website ModerateMurwarid Ziayee, senior director of the Canadian Women’s Promotion of Afghan Women’s Organization, wrote that in an area controlled by the Taliban in Tahar Province, a colleague was “banned from going to a pharmacy to buy medicine for her sick mother.”
“There, every family—many of them poor and difficult to feed themselves—is required to take turns buying and cooking food for a large number of Taliban groups. If they don’t obey, they will be cruelly punished.”
“The Taliban have not changed, they will never change.”
The Calgary-based organization plans to hold protests in Ottawa and Vancouver on Saturday and called for a “strong international security response” to stop the Taliban.
A screenshot from a Taliban video posted on Twitter.
Since the Taliban were expelled after the 9/11 attacks, women and girls have made considerable progress, returning to school, work and politics.
Canadian “The rights of women and girls first” Millions of Afghan women’s groups aim to promote women’s empowerment and gender equality.
“Now 3.3 million girls are receiving education, and women are more actively participating in the country’s political, economic and social life,” Amnesty International wrote in a statement. Report in May.
“Despite the ongoing conflict, Afghan women have become lawyers, doctors, judges, teachers, engineers, athletes, activists, politicians, journalists, bureaucrats, business owners, police and military personnel.”
The Taliban are now planning to retake the capital, risking the advancement of women and girls being reversed.
In a statement on Friday, the Taliban claimed that it was the victim of “baseless and sinister propaganda” and stated that it would protect Afghans. “No one should worry about this.”
But many people are worried.
“I am not safe because I am a 22-year-old woman, and I know that the Taliban are forcing families to marry their daughters to their fighters,” a reporter who went into hiding Wrote anonymously in the Guardian.
“I am not safe either because I am a journalist and I know that the Taliban will come to me and all my colleagues.”
“All my female media colleagues were terrified. Most people managed to escape from the city and tried to find a way out of the province, but we were completely surrounded. All of us openly opposed the Taliban and passed us The news report angered them.”
Stewart.Bell@globalnews.ca
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