DAirlift evacuated from Afghanistan was suspended last night. Twenty years of military service in Western countries is over.But for many people, rule no longer has any hope Taliban And to evade their possible retaliation against those who cooperate with Western forces. The goals of the West, especially the promotion of the right to education and the strengthening of women’s equal rights, are also the goals of many Afghan women who are now forced to stay behind. “We have to start again,” Zarifa Ghafari, one of the first female mayors of Afghanistan, held yesterday’s newly established “Defend Afghan Women’s Rights” initiative organized by the Feminist Foreign Policy Center and the Afghan government. Said in tears at the press conference. The German-Iraqi non-governmental organization HÁWAR.help was established.
Ghafari reported on her home country, where two decades of achievements are now in danger of being taken away again. She herself survived several assassination attempts by the Taliban and took an evacuation flight to Germany. Many Afghan women are unsuccessful in this regard, even though they — journalists, lawyers or activists — risk their lives to defend human rights. Ghafari reports that the Taliban’s targeted killing of dissidents has just begun.
Why did the evacuation come so late?
But who bears political responsibility for these people? “Germany’s responsibility to the Afghan people will not end with the end of the Bundeswehr’s mission — it has just begun,” said Duzen Tekar, co-founder of “Defense of Women’s Rights in Afghanistan”. The initiative maintains close contact with local women’s rights organizations and supports them by collecting donations, some of which also help them escape. Tekkal asked the federal government to establish an investigation committee to clarify why the evacuation was so late and why it was not controlled. The failure of the West should also be dealt with: “We have to look very carefully at what is happening there and what wrong decisions the NATO countries there have made,” Tekal said.
However, for Afghan women, the local situation is getting worse. Tekkal reported that female teachers—if they are allowed to teach—are often monitored by the Taliban in schools. One sentence of criticism will have consequences, and the worst case is death. The initiative also warned that the time window in which Afghanistan remains the focus of global public attention is shortening. “Afghanistan seems to be ripped off the map,” said Marian Heidar of the “Afghan Global Movement for Peace”. A weak hope is to establish contacts through social media in order to communicate with the ruling Taliban in a reasonably protective manner. In the future, a way must be found to provide a platform for the voice of Afghan women.At the same time, Zarifa Gafari hopes to continue advocating for the rights of her allies in Germany Afghanistan fighting. “What I hope is that our generation will never give up. Even if they are difficult to hear in this country. The only thing we can do is to stand by the Afghan people.”
