RASC News Agency: The “Purple Saturdays” movement has issued a compelling statement, calling upon the United Nations and international human rights organizations to take urgent, robust action against the Taliban’s crimes. The movement emphasized that a prompt and serious global response is a critical need for upholding international justice and safeguarding human rights.
The statement underscores, “Women have been the principal victims of the Taliban’s entrenched and systematic violence throughout the past three years.” Since the Taliban’s resurgence, Afghanistani women have faced increasing harm, struggling under the growing weight of the group’s oppressive decrees and restrictions. The movement insists that the international community must respond immediately to counter these abuses.
Protesting women have urged the United Nations and global human rights bodies to intervene before the “humanitarian disaster” in Afghanistan becomes entirely unmanageable. They call for immediate, forceful action to confront the “crimes against humanity,” particularly those inflicted upon Afghanistani women by the Taliban regime.
In their statement, the women outline the severe violations they have endured over the last three years. These include sexual assaults in prisons, forced marriages to Taliban fighters, and abductions from the streets under the pretext of enforcing Sharia law, hijab mandates, and moral policing imposed by the group.
The ongoing atrocities, they argue, not only shatter women’s lives but also challenge the international community’s commitments to human rights and justice. The movement claims that the Taliban, using Islamic law as a veneer, have resorted to brutal tactics, such as “sexual violence,” to stifle women’s protests and conceal their “crimes against humanity.”
The movement concludes by urging the international community to apply pressure on the Taliban through stringent sanctions, initiate immediate humanitarian interventions, and conduct independent monitoring of Taliban abuses. Only through these measures, they contend, can the world halt further engagement with the oppressive regime.
