Islam Hates Women > Women not allowed at UN conference on Afghanistan - Taliban

 

Taliban demand that no women be allowed to

participate in UN conference on Afghanistan

JUN 25, 2024 3:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER

Watch for the UN to cave on this. After all, it doesn’t want to appear “Islamophobic.”

Shutting Afghan women out of key UN conference

to appease Taliban ‘a betrayal’

by Tom Levitt, Annie Kelly and Zahra Joya, Guardian, June 21, 2024:

Excluding Afghan women from an upcoming UN conference on Afghanistan would be a “betrayal” of women and girls in the country, say human rights groups and former politicians.

The Taliban are reportedly demanding that no Afghan women be allowed to participate in the UN meeting in Doha starting 30 June, set up to discuss the international community’s approach to Afghanistan, and that women’s rights are not on the agenda….

Tirana Hassan, executive director at Human Rights Watch, said: “Excluding women risks legitimising the Taliban’s abuses and triggering irreparable harm to the UN’s credibility as an advocate for women’s rights and women’s meaningful participation.”

In trying to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table now, the UN was giving in to their demands to exclude women’s rights, said the former Afghan minister of women’s affairs Sima Samar.

“This situation is an indirect submission to the will of the Taliban. Law, democracy and sustainable peace are not possible without including half of the population of the society who are women. I don’t think we have learned anything from past mistakes…

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