Afghan women feel scared or unsafe leaving their homes alone because of Taliban decrees and enforcement campaigns on clothing and male guardians, according to a report from the U.N. mission in Afghanistan.
The report, issued Friday, comes days before a U.N-convened meeting in the Qatari capital is set to start, with member states and special envoys to Afghanistan due to discuss engagement with the Taliban and the country’s crises, including the human rights situation.
The Taliban — which took over Afghanistan in 2021 during the final weeks of U.S. and NATO withdrawal from the country — have barred women from most areas of public life and stopped girls from going to school beyond the sixth grade as part of harsh measures they imposed despite initial promises of a more moderate rule.
The Afghan people were given the tools to maintain a working state. They didn’t want it. The president broke the sound barrier leaving the office, and the army was not as big as they told us it was. Paper soldiers.
This is the state they wanted. Let them enjoy it.
Im all for helping women leave the country so the men can enjoy their Islamic dream by themselves.
It’s a wast country and the rural population leaned a lot on the taliban side. The work was slow but progress was made, the endeavour was a never-ending project though. Working with millions of people to change their way of thinking, inherited over hundreds of years.