14 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Taliban fundamentalist movement has rejected a request by eleven members of the UN Security Council to lift the ban on women’s participation in education and humanitarian work, arguing that it contravenes Islamic law (or sharia).
“The Islamic Emirate tries to regulate all issues under the light of sharia,” explained the spokesman and deputy minister of Information, Zabiulá Mujahid, referring to the official name of the movement.
“Taking into account the responsibility that it must show towards its people and towards its religion, the emirate cannot allow acts against sharia in this country,” he added.
Albania, Brazil, Ecuador, the United Arab Emirates, France, Gabon, Japan, Malta, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, express “their grave concern over the critical situation of women and girls in Afghanistan,” according to the conclusions of the meeting. of the Security Council this past Friday, collected by the permanent mission of Switzerland to the international institution.
The signatories understand that women are a “key” element in operations to alleviate the humanitarian situation due to their access to populations that their male colleagues cannot reach. “Without their involvement in aid delivery in Afghanistan and their essential expertise, NGOs will not be able to reach those who need it most, particularly women and girls, to provide life-saving materials and services,” they say.
The spokesman, in response, has called on the international community to understand the religious demands of traditional Afghan society and to refrain, once again, from linking the delivery of humanitarian aid to the political situation.
