RASC News Agency: Marking International Women’s Day on March 8, Amnesty International has released a report condemning the Taliban’s systematic oppression of Afghanistani women and girls, declaring that their policies have reached “inhumane levels.” The organization stresses the urgent need to strengthen resistance against the Taliban’s draconian rule, warning that under their regime, women’s fundamental rights have not only been abolished by law but completely eradicated through policies that confine them strictly within their homes.
The report asserts that women’s rights are human rights and denounces the Taliban’s brutal and relentless control over Afghanistani women’s lives, which has effectively rendered them invisible in their own society. Amnesty International states that, nearly three years into Taliban rule, the lives of Afghanistani women remain unchanged, with restrictions intensifying rather than easing. A generation of girls has been robbed of its future, and women have been forced to once again fight for the most basic human rights a struggle that will leave deep and lasting scars for decades to come.
Raising a critical question on International Women’s Day, the organization asks:
“Are we truly willing to stand by and let this happen?” Amnesty warns that permitting such extreme oppression to continue sets a dangerous global precedent for women’s rights. “What is happening to Afghanistani women and girls is a defining test of the credibility of international law, the global commitment to human rights, the integrity of feminist movements, and our moral responsibility to defend human dignity,” the report states. “The world’s response to this crisis will not only shape Afghanistan’s fate but will determine the future of justice, equality, and human dignity worldwide.”
Amnesty International calls for a renewed and uncompromising global commitment to human rights, pointing out the disturbing contradiction between the Taliban’s systematic erasure of women’s freedoms and the ongoing diplomatic engagements between world leaders and Taliban officials. The organization emphasizes that this International Women’s Day must serve as a turning point a moment when the international community commits itself to ensuring that by this time next year, Afghanistani women will no longer be subjected to a state-imposed gender apartheid.
