“If the international community does nothing, it will mean abandoning women and girls in Afghanistan and undermining human rights everywhere,” says Amnesty International’s secretary-general.
The lives of girls and women in Afghanistan are being destroyed by the Taliban regime’s relentless violation of their rights, the non-governmental organization Amnesty International said in a report released today.
Since returning to power in Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, Sunni fundamentalists have banned girls from attending school and women face increasingly severe exclusion from public life, work and extreme restrictions on freedom of movement.
Amnesty bases its report, entitled “Death in Slow Motion” (“Death in Slow Motion”), in interviews with over a hundred women and girls in Afghanistan. They revealed to the NGO that the Taliban threaten, arrest, imprison, torture and “disappear” women who dare to challenge their restrictions.
prison guards «they would come to my cell and show me pictures of my family. They kept repeating: “We can kill them.”“, said a prisoner.
A second said that “they beat us on the breasts and between the legs,” so that “we could not show anyone» the signs of torture.
A third says she was arbitrarily arrested and tortured, including “electric shocks,” for appearing in public with a man who was not considered her “mahram,” that is, her male “guardian.”
Amnesty International highlights that child marriage is once again on the rise under the Taliban regime. Poverty, drought, lack of access to education are the main factors for the spread of the phenomenon.
The UK-based NGO is calling on the international community to respond to these violations by imposing targeted sanctions and travel bans on Taliban regime leaders.
“The Taliban deliberately deprive millions of women and girls of their human rights” and turn them into victims of “systematic discrimination“, she summarizes Anies Kalamarthe secretary general of Amnesty International.
“If the international community remains inactive, it will be abandoning women and girls in Afghanistan and undermining human rights everywhere.».
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