RASC: The coalition of women’s protest movements expressed their concerns about giving a tribune to people who consider interaction with the Taliban group to be the solution.
These concerns are expressed when one of the participants in the Human Rights Council meeting said that the international community should interact with the Taliban.
This coalition has said in a statement that the Taliban are not bound to engage in dialogue, otherwise they should have fulfilled at least one of their commitments to the international community.
Human rights defender Madina Mahboobi yesterday (Monday, June 19) at the meeting of the Human Rights Council about Afghanistani women and girls, asked the world to interact with the Taliban group.
He said: “We should interact with the Taliban group to force them to respect the rights and security of activists, journalists and human rights defenders.”
The coalition of protest movements, however, said that these voices are not the real calls of Afghanistani women and “no woman who believes in human dignity considers dialogue and interaction with a terrorist group as a solution.”
The coalition commended Richard Bennett, Special Rapporteur on human rights for Afghanistan, and Dorothy Estrada, Chair of the Working Group on Combating Discrimination, for their recent report on the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan.
The Coalition of Protest Movements added that the report covered all aspects of women’s lives in Afghanistan under Taliban rule, but “only depicts a fraction of women’s lives.”
This coalition emphasized that the two-year interaction of countries with the Taliban had no positive results in the lives of women and the situation of human rights in Afghanistan.
The coalition of protest movements added that we ask the member countries in the Human Rights Council to refrain from double policies and to allow what they want for women in their countries for the rights of Afghanistani women.
This coalition added that the countries should not ignore gender apartheid in Afghanistan and use principled and legal measures against it.
