The “Regulation on the Promotion of Advantage and the Prevention of Vice” silences girls’s voices and deprives them of their autonomy, “successfully making an attempt to render them into faceless, unvoiced shadows”, said Ravina Shamdasani, OHCHR’s Chief Spokesperson.
“That is completely insupportable,” she confused.
“We name on the de facto authorities to right away repeal this laws, which is in clear violation of Afghanistan’s obligations underneath worldwide human rights legislation.”
Repressive, obscure provisions
The legislation adopted final week imposes a prolonged record of repressive provisions on girls, together with mandates that they put on clothes masking their total our bodies, bans on their voices being heard in public, and additional restrictions on their motion with no male family member.
Even the sound of a feminine voice outdoors the house is seemingly deemed an ethical violation.
It additionally requires males to develop beards, bans drivers from enjoying music, and restricts the media from publishing pictures of individuals. State brokers are granted broad powers to detain people and impose punishments.
Ms. Shamdasani emphasised that disempowering and rendering Afghan girls and women invisible will solely worsen the human rights and humanitarian disaster within the nation.
“Moderately, this can be a time to carry collectively all of the individuals of Afghanistan, no matter their gender, faith or ethnicity, to assist resolve the various challenges the nation faces,” she urged.
‘Distressing imaginative and prescient’ for the long run
The UN’s high envoy to Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, additionally denounced the brand new legislation, describing it a “distressing imaginative and prescient” for the nation’s future.
“After a long time of struggle and within the midst of a horrible humanitarian disaster, the Afghan individuals deserve a lot better than being threatened or jailed in the event that they occur to be late for prayers, look at a member of the other intercourse who isn’t a member of the family, or possess a photograph of a cherished one,” she mentioned in a statement.
Residents, not topics to be disciplined
Ms. Otunbayeva added that the worldwide neighborhood “had been searching for, in good religion” to constructively interact with the Taliban.
“The world desires to see Afghanistan on the trail of peace and prosperity, the place all Afghans have a stake of their future, are residents with rights and never simply topics to be disciplined.”
She emphasised that additional limiting the rights of the Afghans and holding them in fixed worry will make attaining that aim “even more durable”.
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