human rights activists; The result of the third Doha meeting is to sprinkle salt on the wounds of the Afghan people

3 Jul 2024
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human rights activists; The result of the third Doha meeting is to sprinkle salt on the wounds of the Afghan people

A group of human rights activists, by publishing a statement, considered the outcome of the third Doha meeting as rubbing salt in the wounds of the Afghan people.

A group of human rights activists released a statement on Tuesday, 13 July Cancer, saying that the exclusion of women and civil activists from the third Doha meeting strengthens the Taliban’s position and encourages it to systematically violate human rights and gender apartheid.

In this statement, they termed the outcome of the third Doha meeting as “sprinkling salt on the wounds of the Afghan people” and said: “The intentional exclusion of women from the official meeting due to the demands of the Taliban officials shows an astonishing disregard for human rights and women’s rights by the organizers of this conference.” Was.”

These activists also described the meeting with representatives of women and civil society on the sidelines of the Doha meeting as “spectacular, ineffective and lacking in transparency” and said that the special representatives of the countries did not participate in it.

These human rights activists have asked the United Nations to invite women and civil society groups in all political processes related to Afghanistan and to ensure that human rights and women’s rights do not become bargaining tools of the Taliban.

In their statement, they also demanded the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2721 and the appointment of a special representative for Afghanistan.

However, Rosemary DiCarlo, the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, said in a press conference after the end of the third Doha meeting on Monday, 11 Cancer, that the Doha meeting and interaction with the Taliban does not mean the normalization of relations or the officialization of the Taliban.

Mrs. DiCarlo said that the Taliban group cannot return to the international community by depriving women, and banning the education, study and work of girls and women means delaying the development of Afghanistan.

He emphasized that human rights, especially the rights of women and girls and all members of society in Afghanistan, will be an “inseparable” part of all discussions of this organization.

This official of the organization added that at the Doha meeting, the representatives of the participating countries raised the ban on girls’ education as a priority demand with the Taliban, and he hopes that these demands will be listened to as soon as possible.

According to him, the policy of the United Nations is for the people to be at the center of decisions and women are also part of the people.

The third Doha meeting was held under the shadow of widespread criticism about the elimination of non-Taliban forces, especially women.

These criticisms are raised while the two-day meeting in Doha ended on the evening of Monday, the 11th of Cancer, a meeting in which issues of interest to the Taliban were discussed and human rights, comprehensive governance and concerns about the threat of terrorism were not on its agenda.