Jade-Abresham(Silk Way)Weekly: Taliban continue banning women education, restricting women from work and basic freedoms contrary to international community pressure and demands. The doors of the schools are closed on girls from 7-12 grades.
Taliban have eliminated women from the public administration. As a new move, Naqibuddin Qazizada the Chief of Badakhshan University has issued a letter announcing women shall not teach in Badakhshan university. Based on the provisions of the letter, 3 university lecturers including Muzhda Tabesh the Dean of Social Science Faculty of Badakhshan university have been sacked.
On 9 June 2022, some women civil servants issued a statement saying “On 12 October 2021, Association of Women Civil Servants held a press conference asking the Taliban Take Care Government to decide about their work status, and Taliban immediately said they would make a decision on the mentioned issue, but they have made no decisions about the women civil servants and their fate is unclear yet.”
Women civil servants emphasized they had been employed based on the law and through a merit based process and as a result, a change in political system must not impact their work. However, Taliban do not abide by law and governance principles. They have formed a terrorist, ethnic and mono-gender state. Taliban not only are not concerned about status of women civil servants, but they prevent women from working in the free market. On 2 June, the forces of ordering to virtue and preventing from vice entered by force to the women tailor shops in Herat. They warned women tailors to leave the “Haram or illegal” work. They consider tailoring for women is against sharia. As a result, women must not work as a tailor in the market.
This decision on Taliban is against the human rights values and citizen rights. The international community only has issued its concerns and condemned the Taliban. Human rights organizations and the UN have taken no concrete steps to defend women rights to education, work and freedom.
Add Comment