Most UN Safety Council members demand Taliban rescind decrees severely oppressing ladies and ladies

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Greater than two-thirds of the U.N. Safety Council’s members demanded Monday that the Taliban rescind all insurance policies and decrees oppressing and discriminating in opposition to ladies and ladies, together with banning ladies schooling above the sixth grade and ladies’s proper to work and transfer freely.

A press release by 11 of the 15 council members condemned the Taliban’s repression of ladies and ladies since they took energy in August 2021, and once more insisted on their equal participation in public, political, financial, cultural and social life — particularly in any respect decision-making ranges searching for to advance worldwide engagement with Afghanistan’s de facto rulers.

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Guyana’s U.N. Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett learn the assertion, surrounding by ambassadors of the ten different nations, earlier than a closed council assembly on U.N. Secretary-Basic Antonio Guterres’ convention with greater than 25 envoys to Afghanistan on Feb. 18-19 in Qatar’s capital, Doha.

Afghan civil society representatives, together with ladies, participated within the Doha assembly, which the council members welcomed. The Taliban refused to attend, its Overseas Ministry saying in an announcement that its participation can be “helpful” provided that it was the only real and official consultant for the nation on the talks.

Whereas the Taliban didn’t attend the conferences, U.N. political chief Rosemary DiCarlo did meet with Taliban officers based mostly in Doha, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric mentioned. DiCarlo additionally briefed council members at Monday’s closed assembly.

The Taliban haven’t been acknowledged by any nation, and the U.N. envoy for Afghanistan final yr warned the de facto rulers that worldwide recognition because the nation’s professional authorities will stay “almost unimaginable” except they elevate the restrictions on ladies.

The 11 council nations supporting the assertion — Ecuador, France, Guyana, Japan, Malta, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, South Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States – underscored that there can solely be sustainable peace in Afghanistan if its political course of is inclusive and the human rights of all Afghans are revered together with ladies and ladies.

4 Safety Council nations didn’t signal on to the assertion – Russia, China, Mozambique and Algeria.

The Taliban refused to attend the Doha assembly. A Overseas Ministry assertion mentioned participation would solely be helpful if the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, because the Taliban name their administration, are the only real and official consultant for the nation on the talks.

Secretary-Basic Guterres informed reporters in Doha that amongst contributors — additionally together with representatives of the European Union, the Group of Islamic Cooperation and the Shanghai Cooperation Group — there was “complete consensus” on necessities for Afghanistan to be built-in into the worldwide neighborhood.

To achieve this “endgame,” he mentioned, Afghanistan should not be “the hotbed of terrorist actions that impression different nations,” its establishments should embody numerous teams together with Uzbeks, Tajiks, Pashtuns and Hazaras, and human rights should be revered particularly the rights of ladies and ladies.

Guterres mentioned to a sure extent there may be presently “a form of scenario of the hen and the egg.”

“On one hand, Afghanistan stays with a authorities that isn’t acknowledged internationally and, in lots of elements, not built-in within the international establishments and within the international economic system,” he mentioned. “And however, there may be within the worldwide neighborhood a notion that inclusivity has not improved; that the scenario of ladies and ladies and human rights basically has in actual fact deteriorated in latest occasions.”

The secretary-general mentioned one goal of the assembly with the envoys was “to beat this impasse” and develop a roadmap during which the worldwide neighborhood’s issues and the Taliban’s issues are “taken into consideration concurrently.”

A Safety Council decision requested Guterres to nominate a U.N. envoy after consultations with all events, member states, the Taliban and others.

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Guterres mentioned the contributors determined he ought to provoke consultations “to see if there are situations to create a U.N. envoy which may have the option not solely to have a coordinating position in relation to the engagements which can be going down however that may additionally work successfully with the de facto authorities of Afghanistan.”

“I’ll provoke instantly these consultations,” the U.N. chief mentioned.