• Contact
  • Home 1
  • Home 2
  • Home 3
  • Home 4
  • Newsletter
  • NutritionHome
  • Privacy Policy
  • Sample Page
  • Terms and Conditions
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
  • Login
  • Register
No Result
View All Result
NEWSLETTER
Nutrition@GCI
  • Home
  • Food
  • Nutrition
  • Malnutrition
  • CMAM
  • MIYCN
  • Home
  • Food
  • Nutrition
  • Malnutrition
  • CMAM
  • MIYCN
No Result
View All Result
Nutrition@GCI
No Result
View All Result
Home Food

Afghanistan now ‘most repressive country’ for women, Security Council hears

by GCIni
March 8, 2023
in Food, Food Insecurity
Reading Time: 5 mins read
A A
0
Afghanistan now ‘most repressive country’ for women, Security Council hears
0
SHARES
0
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

[ad_1]

Roza Isakovna Otunbayeva, UN Special Representative and head of the UN’s Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, UNAMA, strongly condemned recent Taliban decrees that have further eroded the rights of Afghan women.

However, she also urged the international community to preserve “whatever political space exists” for frank discussions with Afghanistan’s leaders, warning of rapidly deteriorating humanitarian and economic conditions across the country.

‘Talents confiscated’

Following Afghanistan’s fall to the Taliban in August 2021, the UN remained committed to “stay and deliver” while calling for unified support for the country’s people.  

Initial engagements with the de facto Taliban authorities were relatively constructive. However, decisions over the last year – including bans recently imposed on women accessing higher education and working for NGOs – have been widely viewed as unacceptable.

In her address to the Council, the Special Representative expressed regret that, on International Women’s Day, she bore few comforting messages for the women of Afghanistan.

‘Dreams crushed’

“At a moment when [the country] needs all of its human capital to recover from decades of war, half of its potential doctors, scientists, journalists, and politicians are shut away in their homes, their dreams crushed, and their talents confiscated,” she said.

Bans across Afghanistan are currently in effect against women working, studying and travelling without male companions.

In particular, a December 2022 ban on women’s employment with NGOs – including groups that deliver crucial humanitarian aid – has had serious consequences for both the population dependent on that aid, and the Taliban’s relationship with the global community.

The UN deputy chief

Calls to engage

The Special Representative expressed her hope that the Taliban will pay heed to the international community’s unified position and reverse those decrees, as well as others that are further eroding the rights of women.

However, she also called on the international community to construct an agenda for discussions with the Taliban – including on issues that matter to them – as the basis of a gradual confidence-building process, citing Afghanistan’s grim economic and humanitarian prospects and the need for access.

The country is still home to the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with two-thirds of the population, or 28 million people, estimated to need aid in 2023.

Nearly half of the population, 20 million people, are currently experiencing crisis levels of food insecurity, and six million are one step away from famine-like conditions.

Clean water, basic toilets and good hygiene practices are essential to the health of children in Afghanistan.

‘Time is short’

Against that backdrop, Ms. Otunbayeva warned the Council that “time is short, and demands on donors are multiplying.”

She voiced her fear that, as 2023 progresses, bans on women and other restrictions imposed by the Taliban may further hinder humanitarian access to those most in need.

The UN’s ability to deliver is also being impacted by growing concerns over the looming threat posed by the terrorist group known as Islamic State – Khorasan Province, or ISIL-K, and worries that the Taliban lack the capacity to address it.

Noting that UNAMA continues to engage daily with Taliban officials, the local opposition, civil society groups and many others, she also called on the Council to renew the Mission’s essential mandate for another year.

Experts urge Taliban to end ‘harmful annihilation’

The “harmful annihilation” of women’s rights in Afghanistan must be reversed, UN-appointed independent rights experts said on Wednesday.

In an appeal coinciding with International Women’s Day, the experts urged Taliban leaders to lift the many restrictions imposed on women since they seized power.

“Women and girls have been banned from entering amusement parks, public baths, gyms and sports clubs for four months,” the experts said in a statement, adding that since the Taliban takeover, “women have been wholly excluded from public office and the judiciary” too.

Today in Afghanistan, women and girls must also adhere to a strict dress code and they are not permitted to travel more than 75 kilometres without a male escort, the experts explained.

“They are compelled to stay at home.”

The rights experts, who report to the Human Rights Council in an independent capacity as non-UN staff, also urged the Taliban authorities to fulfil their obligations under the international human rights treaties to which they are a State party.

These accords include CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.


[ad_2]

Source link

Tags: AfghanistanCouncilcountryhearsrepressivesecuritywomen
ShareTweetShare
Previous Post

The Business Case for Adaptation Finance of “Brain Trust”

Next Post

Quantifying the impact of sleepless nights and ongoing drowsiness — ScienceDaily

GCIni

GCIni

Related Posts

COVID-19 sets MENA back on poverty

COVID-19 sets MENA back on poverty

March 9, 2023
0
A pinch (less) of salt can save lives, WHO says in new report

A pinch (less) of salt can save lives, WHO says in new report

March 9, 2023
0

Opening remarks of Karen Mapusua, Director of the Land Resources Division at SPC, during the Eighth Heads of Agriculture and Forestry Meeting

March 9, 2023
0

Guest Article: Working Towards Inclusive and Resilient Agrifood Systems in the Pacific | SDG Knowledge Hub

March 9, 2023
0
Next Post
Arctic carbon conveyor belt discovered — ScienceDaily

Quantifying the impact of sleepless nights and ongoing drowsiness -- ScienceDaily

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recommended

Dopamine’s many roles, explained — ScienceDaily

Function follows form in plant immunity — ScienceDaily

10 months ago
0

Oxygenate Your Body With 35% Food-Grade Hydrogen Peroxide

1 year ago
0

Popular News

    Connect with us

    Tag Cloud

    Africa (178) Agriculture (118) aid (119) among (121) Breastfeeding (184) change (177) chief (112) child (146) Children (442) climate (275) COVID19 (169) Crisis (243) Day (115) Development (110) diet (147) dietary (160) disease (118) drought (110) Food (1086) global (227) Health (375) healthy (175) humanitarian (138) Hunger (216) malnutrition (264) million (133) Nutrition (859) obesity (184) People (157) report (140) risk (240) ScienceDaily (1414) security (204) Somalia (117) Source (156) South (125) study (359) support (156) Time (113) Ukraine (215) UNICEF (261) War (128) WFP (201) women (200) World (218)

    Newsletter

    Subscribe to our daily or weakly newsletter to get informed of all the important Nutrition news from around the globe.

    Category

    • Agriculture
    • CMAM
    • crop
    • Diet & Nutrition
    • Food
    • Food Insecurity
    • Malnutrition
    • MIYCN
    • Nutrition
    • Obesity
    • Research
    • Stunting
    • Uncategorized
    • Wasting
    No Result
    View All Result

    Archives

    About Us

    Nutrition @ GCIni brings you the latest news from around the globe. Check ut our categories page for different sections or go through the tags cloud for various tags within the news.

    • Advertise
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Contact

    © 2020 - 2030 Nutrition@GCIni - Nutrition News from arround the globe by GCIni.

    No Result
    View All Result
    • Home
    • Lifestyle

    © 2020 - 2030 Nutrition@GCIni - Nutrition News from arround the globe by GCIni.

    Welcome Back!

    Login to your account below

    Forgotten Password? Sign Up

    Create New Account!

    Fill the forms below to register

    All fields are required. Log In

    Retrieve your password

    Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

    Log In