UN Security Council members urged the Taliban to lift bans on women

• Taliban restricted women’s access to nearly every aspect of public life.
• The United Arab Emirates and Japan requested that the 15-member UNSC meet in private on Friday.
•  Members of the UNSC urged Taliban to lift bans.

As the Taliban continued to enforce restrictive laws on women’s employment and education, a number of UNSC members asked the group to stop treating Afghan women in an oppressive manner.

The United Arab Emirates and Japan requested that the 15-member UNSC meet in private on Friday to review the actions taken by the Taliban-led government, which took control of Afghanistan in August 2021 after the US troop pullout.

Since then, the Taliban has restricted women’s access to nearly every aspect of public life, prohibiting them from pursuing secondary and higher education, working in the public sector, and going to parks.

Japanese Ambassador Ishikane Kimihiro said, “We encourage the Taliban to immediately reverse any restrictive measures against women and girls.”

The United Nations Security Council has called on the Taliban to respect the rights of women and girls. 11 nations,  demanded that the Taliban respect human rights in Afghanistan, including the right to education and freedom of expression.

They also called on the authorities in Afghanistan to reverse bans on women working for aid groups or attending universities and high school.

According to the UN 20 million people in Afghanistan are suffering from severe hunger, 97 percent of the population relies on charity for survival, and two-thirds of Afghans live in poverty.

The executive director of UNICEF said that the restriction on female relief workers was “both wrong and dangerous.”

“To say that without them, lives will be lost, children will die, is not hyperbole,” she said.

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