Afghan women were prevented from attending a high-level meeting in Qatar on Sunday between the Taliban and joint country leaders and special envoys dealing with Afghanistan. The Taliban had previously demanded the exclusion of girls from their country as a condition of their presence.
“The diplomatic community’s continued capitulation to the demands of terrorists reinforces the Taliban’s position. Women and girls in Afghanistan are living in open prisons and are treated as less than human beings. Kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of women There are daily realities for.” The Taliban’s system of gender apartheid,” Jason Hawk, director of World Friends of Afghanistan, told Fox Information Virtual.
According to the Associated Press, discussions at the conferences reportedly focused on private sector expansion, financing and banking sanctions, and drug trafficking. Well-known Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid will head the delegation of the de facto government of Afghanistan. Following Sunday’s meetings with the Taliban, the special envoys were expected to meet with Afghan women and civilian family members.
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Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, center right, who leads the Taliban delegation, talks to Uzbekistan’s presidential envoy to Afghanistan Ismatullah Irgashev during a meeting in Doha, Qatar, Sunday, June 30, 2024. A Taliban delegation is attending a UN-led meeting on Afghanistan in Qatar after organizers said women would be excluded from the collection. (Taliban Spokesperson Administrative Center via AP)
“The United Nations and any diplomat or nation who supports the exclusion of women from the Doha talks to serve the wishes of the Taliban and the Haqqani terrorist network should be publicly shamed. The women of Afghanistan, who for all Believes in human rights, they should be at every meeting about the future of the country. Misogynistic terrorists should be kept out of any conference until they change their stance on human rights and terrorism,” Hawke said. Complained.
UN spokesperson Jose Luis Diaz assured Fox Information Virtual that “We – and I hope many special envoys – will raise human rights, and especially the rights of women and girls, in all discussions with the Taliban.” Diaz did not respond to a question about whether delegates would specifically note a broad list of repressive Taliban orders such as forced veiling, restrictions on education after sixth grade for girls, and girls being allowed to move in without a man. To impose restrictions on the ability of Patron
The Americans were to include Tom West, the special adviser for Afghanistan, and Rina Amiri, the special envoy for Afghan women, women’s and human rights, according to order area spokesman Matthew Miller, who told Newshound that West and Amiri “will be able to escape only if “Once they gained clarity about the actual agenda and, more importantly, confirmed that the conference would have meaningful engagement with Afghan women and members of Afghan civil society.”
A Taliban spokesperson addresses a press conference in Kabul, June 29, 2024. Afghanistan’s Taliban government met global envoys in Qatar on June 30 for talks pitched by the United Nations as an important step in the engagement process, but it was condemned. Rights groups to sideline Afghan girls. (Photo by Ahmed Sahel Arman/AFP via Getty Images)
The Taliban firmly stated that they would not talk about the girls in Doha. During a Saturday press conference in Kabul, Resonance of the USA reported that Mujahid reiterated that “Our meetings, such as those in Doha or with other countries, have nothing to do with the lives of our sisters, nor will we ” Allow them to interfere in our internal affairs.” De Mujahid noted that he believes “the issues women are facing,” adding that “those are internal Afghan matters and should be addressed locally within the framework of Islamic Sharia.” needs to be addressed at this level.”
In an interview posted to X, Roza Otunbayeva, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General for Afghanistan and head of the United Nations Assistance Challenge in Afghanistan (UNAMA), indicated how girls’ problems could be addressed. “The issues of private industry and banking and…anti-narcotics policy, both of these are about women,” Otunbayeva advised Newshound.
UNAMA did not respond to questions about Otunbayeva’s comments and the scope of discussions with the Taliban regarding girls’ rights.
Afghan girls chant slogans and protest during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 26, 2022. (AP)
Since key Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada imposed Sharia law across the country in November 2022, Afghan girls have been physically attacked by people intent on breaking the law. On June 4, 14 girls in Sar-e-Pul province were publicly flogged for the crimes of assault by immoral family members, robbery and sodomy.
One of the worst attacks on women has been exposed in private. In its 2023 human rights record, Order Areas wrote about allegations that girls were being raped in Taliban prisons. Some were reportedly forced to have abortions and later became pregnant in custody. Others were said to have been eliminated, then “fell gravely ill as a result of repeated sexual assaults by Taliban members.”
The head of the Taliban’s Doha political office, Suhail Shaheen, advised Fox Information Virtual that Western media reports about girls’ problems “do not reflect the reality on the ground in Afghanistan”, explaining that “girls are denied access to medical institutions and There is access to education in other Darul Uloom institutions throughout the country.” Shaheen did not respond to follow-up questions about how many girls receive such education or how girls are expected to qualify for higher education later on if their education stops after grade 6.
Shaheen further said that experiences of rape in prisons are “mere claims and allegations. Those who are behind such allegations want to pave the way for asylum (for Afghan women) in the West. I hope that the cases in the West The people at the top will no longer be there.” Misled by some biased media outlets.”
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A member of Taliban forces fires into the air to disperse Afghan women during a rally to protest against the Taliban’s restrictions on girls in Kabul, Afghanistan, on December 28, 2021. (Reuters/Ali Khara)
Journalist Lynn O’Donnell, a former Kabul bureau for the AP and Agence France-Presse, wrote for the Spectator about an investigation into the rape of captured Afghan girls by Taliban contributors. He advised Fox Information Virtual that he “wrote a story that contains credible allegations that is being investigated by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, and has been cited by the State Department.. .So all I can say is that I made it up, and it is a reflection of Western propaganda, it is just further Taliban spin that is meaningless.
In 2022, O’Donnell was detained and investigated during a trip to Afghanistan to document changes in the country since the Taliban takeover. The Taliban pressured O’Donnell to publicly retract his prior reporting about Taliban crimes, including allegations that the Taliban pressured girls into marriage before they were cleared to leave the country.
O’Donnell additionally claimed that “The UN, the US, the EU, the UK, the international community are colluding with the Taliban, as they always have. Their protests against my reporting are proof of that That they would prefer to collude with the Taliban.” A group of terrorists who are murderers, drug dealers, widow makers, child murderers, liars and misogynists.”
Bill Rozio, a senior fellow at Infrastructure for the Protection of Democracies and author of Long Warfare magazine, told Fox News Virtual that U.N. staff in Doha should not underestimate their negotiating partners. “The Taliban leadership out-maneuvered the US in negotiations, organized the US ouster from Afghanistan, and took over the country before the US could leave.” Rogio counts these as indicators that the gang is “organized, integrated and sophisticated.”
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At the entrance to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Aug. 15, warring Taliban factions hold their guns as they declare a halt to the capture of Kabul, the Afghan capital. (AP/Ibrahim Norouji)
Otunbayeva advised newshounds that the Taliban “came from battles, from the mountains,” and “to immediately turn them over to people who will sit (and) accept (is not easy). In her meetings with actual ministers, Otunbayeva That said, some Taliban members claim to support educational access for women and say this prohibition is imposed by higher authorities.
Rogio noted that Otunbayeva “has fallen into the same trap as many supporters for the Taliban: she is repeating Taliban talk given behind closed doors that gives the appearance of a moderate Taliban willing to give women rights. The Taliban are united on the issue that women are being oppressed, and I challenge them to name one influential leader who disagrees.”
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The Taliban was not invited to the first Doha summit in May 2023. He refused to attend a second conference in February, with then-UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres saying he presented conditions that “deprived us of the right to speak to other Afghan representatives.” society and demanded a treatment that closely resembled recognition.”
Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the Secretary-General, advised Newshounds that “any meeting between UN officials and envoys should in no way be seen as official recognition or legitimization of the Taliban as a government.”
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