In accordance with media experiences, the Taliban “morality police” stated earlier within the day that they’d not cooperate with the UN Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) due to criticism of the regulation adopted final week.
UNAMA – alongside different elements of the UN system – denounced the new law, describing it a “distressing imaginative and prescient” for the nation’s future.
“I feel we have now been very vocal on the choice to additional make ladies’s presence nearly disappear in Afghanistan,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric stated, responding to a query on the common press briefing in New York.
Will proceed to interact
He added that the Group “will proceed to interact with all stakeholders in Afghanistan, together with the Taliban,” and that it’ll proceed its work, as mandated by the Security Council.
“We’ve at all times finished so following our mandate and I might say impartially and in good religion, at all times upholding the norms of the UN, pushing the messages of human rights and equality,” he stated.
He additional urged the Taliban de facto authorities “to, in truth, open extra avenues for diplomatic engagement”.
Repressive provisions
The regulation, formally titled “Regulation on the Promotion of Advantage and the Prevention of Vice”, was adopted final week.
It imposes a prolonged record of repressive provisions on ladies, together with mandates that they put on clothes overlaying their whole 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 outwardly deemed an ethical violation.
It additionally requires males to develop beards, bans drivers from enjoying music, and restricts the media from publishing photos of individuals. State officers are granted broad powers to detain people and impose punishments.
Rights specialists condemn measures
The regulation’s enactment, UN unbiased human rights specialists stressed, marked a major regression in human rights in Afghanistan, echoing the oppressive regime of the Taliban’s rule within the Nineteen Nineties.
“These measures are disturbingly just like the Taliban’s draconian rule within the Nineteen Nineties and supply additional proof that the group has not moderated its method since its return to energy,” the specialists stated.
The specialists additionally voiced concern over the Taliban’s morality inspectors’ intensive authority to arbitrarily detain and bodily punish people for alleged ethical crimes, typically based mostly on mere suspicion with none requirement for proof or due course of.
They urged worldwide actors, significantly UN Member States, to formulate a sturdy, principled, and coordinated technique on Afghanistan that prioritizes human rights, with a robust emphasis on ladies’s rights and gender equality.
Appointed by the Geneva-based Human Rights Council, the specialists are mandated to observe and report on particular human rights conditions, each thematic and country-specific.
Impartial of governments and the United Nations, they don’t seem to be UN employees nor do they obtain a wage.
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