RASC News Agency: Heather Barr, the Deputy Director of the Women’s Rights Division at the United Nations Human Rights Watch, recently declared that since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, they have engendered the “most severe women’s rights crisis in the world” to date. Barr articulated these sentiments on Tuesday, Feb 6, in an article published by the legal journal “George Town.”
Barr asserted that although the Taliban systematically violated the rights of Afghanistani women and girls, the global community has shown little response to the issue. She emphasized, “To forestall further deterioration and fortify global dedication to gender equality, more proactive measures must be taken.” According to Ms. Barr, the conflict in Ukraine and the “negligence and shortcomings” of Western nations’ 20-year involvement in Afghanistan have contributed to significant disregard for the crisis in that country.
During the two-year reign of the Taliban, the group has increasingly restricted the lives of women and girls, depriving them of essential rights such as education, employment, and freedom of movement. In the latest instances of Taliban violence, the group has detained several predominantly young girls and women under the guise of not adhering to the hijab, a tactic critics have denounced as abduction.
