The Taliban assure
"that the rights of women will be respected within the framework of Islam but every day we receive reports of setbacks"
concerning these rights, declared Wednesday a UN official established in Kabul.
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Thus,
"it is forbidden for women to leave the house without a mahram"
(a trusted man of the family), detailed Alison Davidian, deputy representative in Afghanistan of the UN entity UN Women, during a press videoconference with journalists in New York.
"In some provinces, they have stopped going to work,"
she lamented.
According to her, the Taliban, in announcing the day before a government exclusively composed of male members of the Islamist movement,
"missed a critical opportunity to show the world that they were truly committed to creating an inclusive government and a society. prosperous". "Now is the time for the Taliban to show that they rule on behalf of all Afghans,"
insisted Alison Davidian.
UN Women is a United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women around the world. When they first came to power (1996-2001), the Taliban Islamists had flouted the rights of women who were almost excluded from public space. Many Afghan women and the international community fear that this will be the case again.