Kabul: According to a recent UN report, ever since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August last year, women and girls in the country have been persecuted and confined to their homes for speaking up for fundamental rights. Is. According to Khama Press, the Taliban continues to impose its brutal regime on Afghan women, barring them from revealing their faces in public and denying them reproductive rights, one of the most serious examples of the regression of women’s and girls’ rights. represents one of the The proportion of women participating in peace talks is also declining, according to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, with no women in leadership positions in the war-torn country.
“Only with equal representation of women in leadership and participation can we build a stable, peaceful society,” the UN chief said in a tweet on Sunday. When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, they immediately began eroding the rights of women and girls. Women began to protest in the streets during the Taliban’s first week in power, despite the serious threats they faced. Women-led protests began in the Herat province of western Afghanistan in early September and quickly spread to other provinces. According to Human Rights Watch, the Taliban’s response was brutal from the start, with protesters beaten up, protests disrupted, and journalists covering the demonstrations detained and tortured.
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Unauthorized protests by the Taliban were also put on hold. The Taliban’s abusive response became more severe over time, culminating in a particularly brutal reaction to a protest on 16 January in Kabul, when Taliban members used pepper spray and electric shock devices to intimidate protesters. Used to intimidate and physically attack. Notably, the human rights situation in Afghanistan has worsened since the fall of the Afghan government and the return of the Taliban to power in August last year. Although the fighting in the country has ceased, serious human rights violations, especially against women and minorities, continue unabated. In addition, the ever-increasing food prices in the country have emerged as a new challenge for Afghans. According to Khama Press, food prices have nearly doubled in less than three months.
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