Last Updated: April 27, 2023, 00:35 IST
Since toppling the Western-backed authorities in Kabul, the Taliban have tightened controls over ladies’s entry to public life, together with barring ladies from college and shutting most women’ excessive colleges. (Reuters/File)
Earlier this month the Taliban started imposing the ban on Afghan ladies working for the UN
The U.N. Security Council is ready to vote on Thursday to condemn a ban on Afghan ladies working for the United Nations in Afghanistan and name upon the Taliban administration to “swiftly reverse” its crackdown on the rights of ladies and women.
The decision to be voted on – drafted by the United Arab Emirates and Japan and seen by Reuters – describes the ban as “unprecedented in the history of the United Nations” and asserts “the indispensable role of women in Afghan society.”
Diplomats stated it’s anticipated to be adopted. A decision wants at the very least 9 votes in favor and no vetoes by Russia, China, the United States, Britain or France to move.
The draft decision says the ban on Afghan ladies working for the United Nations “undermines human rights and humanitarian principles.”
Earlier this month the Taliban started imposing the ban on Afghan ladies working for the U.N. after stopping most girls working for humanitarian support teams in December.
Since toppling the Western-backed authorities in 2021, they’ve additionally tightened controls on ladies’s entry to public life, together with barring ladies from college and shutting women’ excessive colleges.
The Taliban says it respects ladies’s rights in accordance with its strict interpretation of Islamic regulation. Taliban officers stated choices on feminine support employees are an “internal issue.”
The draft Security Council decision calls for all events permit full, fast, protected and unhindered humanitarian entry “regardless of gender” and “stresses the urgent need to continue addressing the dire economic and humanitarian situation.”
It additionally “recognizes the need to help address the substantial challenges facing Afghanistan’s economy, including through efforts to enable the use of assets belonging to Afghanistan’s Central Bank for the benefit of the Afghan people.”
The United States froze billions of the financial institution’s reserves held within the U.S. and later transferred half of the cash to a belief fund in Switzerland overseen by U.S., Swiss and Afghan trustees.
The draft decision additionally stresses “the critical importance” of the United Nations’s continued presence throughout Afghanistan.
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