UN sees progress in talks with Taliban on situation of women in Afghanistan

Jan. 20 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Amina Mohammed, has assured this Friday that they have seen progress in the talks with the Taliban regarding the rights of women and girls after the talks they have held in recent days with the fundamentalists in Afghanistan.

“There are a lot of voices that we’ve heard that are progressing in the way that we like, but there are others that aren’t really. I think the pressure we put on to support those who are thinking in that direction is good. This visit gives more voice and pressure to help these arguments internally,” Mohammed told the BBC.

Mohammed leads a United Nations delegation that traveled to the Afghan capital Kabul this week to meet with the Taliban in a bid to reverse discriminatory policies that fundamentalists have imposed against women since they took control of the country in August. of 2021.

In this sense, Mohammed has transferred to the Taliban that before hoping to obtain international recognition or recover humanitarian aid, they must demonstrate their commitment to the norms recognized throughout the world.

For their part, the Taliban, according to what the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations has said, accuses the international community of “politicizing” humanitarian aid and has reproached them for the fact that the sanctions and the refusal to recognize them are deepening the crisis suffered by the country.

Mohammed has told the Taliban that it will be a long time before any kind of recognition of his government is valued if the situation in Afghanistan, especially with regard to women, remains the same. However, he has also taken the opportunity to criticize the international community, including other Islamic states, for not doing enough to address this problem.

Since the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan with the lightning takeover of Kabul in August 2021, what little progress and rights Afghan women had achieved have been taken away from them, despite promises they made not to return to the kind of policies that applied in the 1990s.

Since then they have decreed new laws to prevent access to education for girls and women, as well as other measures that prevent them from having freedom of movement, or even working in humanitarian agencies, on which practically the entire Afghan population depends.