The UN Security Council requested the Taliban to remove restrictions on Afghan women and girls
More than two-thirds of the members of the United Nations Security Council asked the Taliban yesterday, Monday, to end all “oppression and discrimination” policies and decrees against Afghan women and girls, including banning the education of girls above the sixth grade and the right of women to work and travel freely. to cancelIn the declaration, 11 of the 15 members of the Security Council condemned the suppression of women and girls by the Taliban since they regained power in August 2021, and once again emphasized their equal participation in public, political, economic, cultural and social life. Is.Carolyn Rodríguez-Birkitt, Guyana’s ambassador to the United Nations, who is the interim president of the Security Council, yesterday, Monday (February 26), before the start of a meeting on Afghanistan, said that the Taliban should immediately cancel the policies and orders that women and girls has limitedThe 11 member countries of the Security Council, Ecuador, France, Guyana, Japan, Malta, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, South Korea, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, which support this declaration, emphasized that lasting peace in Afghanistan can only be established if politics promote inclusiveness and respect the human rights of all Afghans, including women and girls.Four Security Council countries – Russia, China, Mozambique and Algeria – did not sign the declaration
