Afghanistan: Taliban's Gender Discrimination - Security Council Media Stakeout | United Nations
Reading a joint press statement, Japan’s ambassador Yamazaki Kazuyuki said, “The Taliban’s ban on the Special Rapporteur to enter Afghanistan is disturbing, and he should be able to fully carry out his mandate.”
Ambassador Yamazaki Kazuyuki, Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations, joined by Ecuador, France, Guyana, Malta, Mozambique, Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, deliver today (6 Sep) a statement on the situation in Afghanistan.
He expressed “deep concern about the so-called “morality law” which was announced by the Taliban recently.”
He continued, “We condemn in the strongest terms the Taliban’s continued systemic gender discrimination and oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan. On top of the existing edicts, this new directive confirms and extends wide-ranging and far-reaching restrictions on personal conduct and provides inspectors with broad powers of enforcement.”
He stressed, “We once again urge the Taliban to swiftly reverse all the policies and practices that restrict the enjoyment by women and girls of their human rights and fundamental freedoms. The Taliban need to listen and respond to the voices of Afghan women and girls by respecting their rights to education and for women, to work as well as the freedoms of expression and movement.”
He added, “We also urge all States and organizations to use their influence, in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations, to promote an urgent reversal of these policies and practices. We would like to stress that the Taliban’s actions of this kind only undermine the international community’s efforts to engage with them.”
He also said, “Afghanistan has committed to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is a party to a number of human rights treaties, particularly the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Afghanistan’s obligations under international law must be fulfilled.”
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