UN meeting blocks Afghan women from agenda

A famous Persian proverb says: “Everything that rots is salted. But when the salt rots, it’s bad.” We say this in times of great disappointment, when you feel you can’t trust anything and no one. This saying rings very true now, as the United Nations convenes senior diplomats for the “Doha Three” meeting on Afghanistan in a few days.

The Taliban’s brutality has intensified, violating the rights of Afghan women and girls to study, work, seek health care, escape violence, or even just walk on the street. Many Afghan women want the United Nations to make things right – to hold the Taliban accountable for their crimes, for making Afghanistan a suffocating prison for women and girls – but Disappointed The United Nations is invalid Response.

However, the Doha three-nation meeting, originally scheduled for June 30-July 1, is a new low for the United Nations since the Taliban took over in August 2021. The United Nations has done its best to keep the Taliban Attendformulated a Agenda Human rights were excluded and Afghan women were excluded from major meetings. In other words, those most affected by the Taliban’s atrocities were marginalized by the UN and excluded from discussing their fate. This also violated United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Securityaimed at ensuring women’s full participation in major international discussions.

In recent weeks, a growing number of female activists in Afghanistan and abroad have called About the States Boycott Doha 3, knowing that the Taliban will not meet with Afghan women.

Afghan women and girls already bear the burden of a systematic suppression of their rights, which they fight every day. Nor should it fall on them to remind the UN of its obligations under resolution 1325. The UN should listen to the diverse voices of Afghan women and ensure their full, meaningful, and safe participation in all discussions on Afghanistan’s post-war reconstruction.

If Doha III proceeds as planned, the United Nations will set a deeply damaging precedent and betray the struggle for rights of Afghan women. The United Nations will permanently damage its credibility by abandoning its obligations to uphold human rights and women’s participation and taking the shameful step of appeasing the Taliban.