Taliban push back against allegations of gender bias, rights abuses

Islamabad — 

Taliban leaders successful Afghanistan person defended their Islamist regularisation amid intensified accusations of "gender-based" favoritism against women and girls astatine this week's U.N. General Assembly.

"The concern is not arsenic it is portrayed and propagated abroad," Maulavi Abdul Kabir, the Taliban lawman premier curate for governmental affairs, asserted successful an interrogation with an Afghan tv transmission aired Friday.

Kabir's comments came a time aft astir 2 twelve countries jointly supported Germany, Canada, the Netherlands and Australia successful their inaugural to clasp the Taliban accountable for their alleged run to systematically exclude women from nationalist beingness since the Taliban regained powerfulness successful 2021.

The de facto Afghan rulers person imposed a strict mentation of Islamic law, known arsenic Sharia. The enforcement includes banning girls' secondary schoolhouse education, prohibiting Afghan women from astir workplaces, and requiring them not to talk aloud and to screen their faces and bodies successful public.

Kabir, portion speaking to the section Ariana News presumption connected Friday, asserted that Western allegations of the Taliban driving women retired of nationalist spaces were misplaced, insisting that the quality rights of each Afghans are protected nether Islamic principles.

"Education for girls beyond the sixth people and astatine universities is presently suspended," helium responded erstwhile asked erstwhile secondary schools would reopen for girls. "The Islamic Emirate has not decided to support them closed indefinitely, nor has the furniture approved immoderate specified policy," Kabir reiterated, utilizing the authoritative rubric of their authorities successful Kabul.

However, the Taliban lawman premier curate said that women are allowed to prosecute acquisition successful spiritual seminaries, known arsenic madrassas, crossed Afghanistan, including successful the capital.

"There are pistillate teachers. It is simply a single-sex Islamic acquisition strategy that requires hijab nether the prevailing societal norms. It besides permits women to prosecute aesculapian education," Kabir stated.

He said that the Taliban authorities employs 85,000 women successful health, immigration, education, passport and different departments. "There are hospitals successful Kabul being tally by pistillate directors," Kabir said.

Nations impulse Taliban to code concerns

Countries specified arsenic Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, Finland, Honduras, Ireland, Iceland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malawi, Morocco, Moldova and Romania are supporting the four-nation propulsion to commencement proceedings against the Taliban astatine the International Court of Justice successful The Hague.

The United States successful not a subordinate of the ICJ.

In their associated connection issued successful New York connected Thursday, these countries urged the Taliban to respect planetary treaties connected eliminating favoritism against women, to which Afghanistan is simply a party.

They hailed the inaugural spearheaded by Germany, Australia, Canada and the Netherlands to propulsion proceedings against the Taliban, urging the de facto Taliban authorities to code planetary concerns oregon look the ineligible challenge.

"This enactment is without prejudice to our steadfast presumption that we bash not politically admit the Taliban de facto authorities arsenic the morganatic practice of the Afghan population," the connection stressed. "Afghanistan's nonaccomplishment to fulfill its quality rights pact obligations is simply a cardinal obstacle to normalization of relations."

The Taliban authorities is not formally recognized by immoderate country, nor is it allowed to correspond Afghanistan astatine the United Nations, chiefly implicit quality rights concerns.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said connected the sidelines of this week's General Assembly that the Taliban's attraction of women tin beryllium compared to "some of the astir egregious systems of oppression successful caller history."

"We volition proceed to amplify the voices of Afghan women and telephone for them to play a afloat relation successful the country's life, some wrong its borders and connected the planetary stage," helium said.

Kabir criticized the U.N. for not granting the Afghanistan spot astatine the satellite assemblage to the Taliban.

"We person met our obligations," helium said. "The Islamic Emirate controls the full geographical territory of the country. People are satisfied with us, and we are governing with the assistance of the people."