Women and girls across Afghanistan reacted to this crackdown with a wave of protests.
Despite initial public commitments to uphold the rights of women and girls, the Taliban introduced policies of systematic discrimination that violate their rights. Since seizing control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban have been the country’s de facto authorities. The comprehensive investigation was conducted from September 2021 to June 2022, and includes interviews with 90 Afghan women and 11 girls, aged between 14 and 74 years old, living in 20 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces.ĭetention and torture of peaceful protesters
Governments and international organizations, including all UN member states and the UN Security Council, must urgently develop and implement a robust and coordinated strategy that pressures the Taliban to bring about these changes.Īmnesty International researchers visited Afghanistan in March 2022. The international community must urgently demand that the Taliban respect and protect the rights of women and girls.”Īmnesty International is calling on the Taliban to implement major policy changes and measures to uphold the rights of women and girls. “This suffocating crackdown against Afghanistan’s female population is increasing day-by-day. Every daily detail – whether they go to school, if and how they work, if and how they leave the house – is controlled and heavily restricted. “Taken together, these policies form a system of repression that discriminates against women and girls in almost every aspect of their lives.
“Less than one year after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, their draconian policies are depriving millions of women and girls of their right to lead safe, free and fulfilling lives,” said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General. The report, Death in Slow Motion: Women and Girls Under Taliban Rule, also reveals how women who peacefully protested against these oppressive rules have been threatened, arrested, detained, tortured, and forcibly disappeared. Since they took control of the country in August 2021, the Taliban have violated women’s and girls’ rights to education, work and free movement decimated the system of protection and support for those fleeing domestic violence detained women and girls for minor violations of discriminatory rules and contributed to a surge in the rates of child, early and forced marriage in Afghanistan. The lives of women and girls in Afghanistan are being devastated by the Taliban’s crackdown on their human rights, Amnesty International said in a new report published today. Huge increase in child, early and forced marriages Women and girls swept up in arrests and detained for ‘moral corruption’ Women protesters detained, forcibly disappeared and tortured Afghanistan: Taliban’s ‘suffocating crackdown’ destroying lives of women and girls – new report