RASC News Agency: Frishta Abbasi, a researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in a video message on the occasion of the second anniversary of the fall of the republican system and the Taliban’s resumption of control over Afghanistan, that the country has largely disappeared from the media. However, it is still one of the worst human crises in the world.
According to Abbasi, two-thirds of the country’s population, including children, are facing acute malnutrition due to lack of food security, women and girls are also more at risk.
Abbasi added that the loss of most of the international aid after the Taliban took over in August 2021 caused the beginning of the initial crisis; but the increasingly repressive policies of the Taliban group, such as banning women from most jobs and working in the United Nations and non-governmental organizations have made the situation much worse.
The Human Rights Watch researcher emphasized: “Governments must put pressure on the Taliban to end this violation of women’s rights, and if the current level of humanitarian aid does not improve, the continued loss of aid will make many Afghanistani people poorer and hungrier.”
This is despite the fact that the international community has always emphasized that if the Taliban group seeks legitimacy, they must first respect human rights, including the rights of women and minorities, and form an inclusive government.
Nevertheless, the Taliban group has claimed that women’s rights are provided within the “Sharia” framework, all strata of society are present in the government of this group, and they called the inclusiveness of their government an internal issue and asked the international community not to “interfere” in this matter.
