A number of women’s protest movements, in a conversation with The Peace Window, about the recent research by the Human Rights Institute for Strengthening the Welfare of Women and Children in Afghanistan, that the rape of women and children by Taliban members has increased by 35% in the past year, say that the real statistics are possible. More than what is mentioned in the report.

Farzaneh Ayoubi, the head of the Afghanistan Women’s Solidarity Movement, said in a conversation with the Peace Window that the reports of sexual assaults by Taliban members on girls and women are very heartbreaking and worrying.

Ms. Ayubi has emphasized that the Taliban group uses religion as a tool to suppress women and girls.

In this conversation, he added that the Taliban group has deprived women and girls of all their basic rights and freedoms and has even called their voices impure.

The head of the Afghan women’s solidarity movement sees the solution to these problems in the continuation of protests and campaigns against the Taliban’s crimes against humanity, and pointed out that the condition of women will not improve until the self-proclaimed government of the Taliban in Afghanistan is overthrown.

According to Ms. Ayubi, if the world remembers Afghanistan until now and has not forgotten it in the last three years, it is because of the struggles and sacrifices of women in Afghanistan.

She considers the struggles of Afghan women to be the main reason for the lack of official recognition and clarification of the true face of the Taliban group.

On the other hand, Nasreen Faramarz, another protesting woman, said in this conversation that this investigation is a timely and important measure in order to provide justice for the victims of sexual assaults.

Mrs. Faramarz added: “I was repeatedly threatened with sexual assault by members of the Taliban because of my struggle to secure the most basic rights for myself and other Afghan women, and they told me that if I continue my protests against this group, the fate of other women who were raped will be the same.” have been placed, I will fall.”

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He believes that the Taliban group has proven in the last three years that they are not changeable and flexible and are gradually suppressing the people of Afghanistan, especially women, vulnerable ethnic groups and religious minorities.

In this regard, Ruqiya Sae, the head of the Afghan Women’s History Movement, in a conversation with The Peace Window, says that due to the lack of effective monitoring by national and international institutions, many women and girls are raped in these prisons.

Referring to the suicide incident of Tahira in Bamyan province, Mrs. Saee said that the Taliban usually threaten the women victims and their families with death, and accordingly, many of these crimes remain hidden due to fear and media censorship.

Mrs. Sae, who has the bitter experience of the Taliban group’s prison, has asked the international community to increase pressure on the Taliban and prevent the continuation of these crimes.

Rukhshane Rezaei, the head of the Afghan Women’s Movement, told the Afghan protesting journalists’ committee about this investigation that the actual statistics may be higher than what was mentioned in the report.

Mrs. Rezaei added that Taliban members have silenced many women and their families by threatening to kill, jail, and inflict severe violence on all girls and women, and this has prevented the disclosure of many Taliban sexual assaults on women and girls. is

She says: “Some reports show that Taliban members have deliberately and maliciously raped women and girls and threatened them with stoning for moral corruption if they report or expose these cases.”

This female protester said that the situation of women in Afghanistan is very worrying and that the Taliban group has turned government offices and the presidential palace into places to have fun.

The head of Afghanistan’s powerful women’s movement has emphasized that until the government is formed based on the votes of the Afghan people and the law is not in place, the condition of women will worsen and the Taliban group will continue their efforts to deny crimes and cover them up

These protesting women, who are among the respondents to the short questionnaires of this research, say that through international pressure and targeted sanctions, the Taliban group can be made to answer and prevent the repetition of these tragedies.

Confirming the increase in sexual assaults by Taliban members on Afghan women and girls in the past year, they asked the international community and human rights institutions to prevent the continuation of these systematic violence with an immediate and effective response.

These reactions come at a time when the Research Institute for Strengthening the Welfare of Afghanistan’s Women and Children published a report on Sunday, 11th of S0nbulah, showing that the number of “sexual assaults” by the Taliban on women and girls in Afghanistan has increased by 35 percent in the past one year. is

In the report of this organization, it is stated that from the 10th of the lunar month of 1402 to the 10th of the lunar month of this year, it recorded 132 cases of sexual assault on girls, women and children in 25 provinces of the country.

Based on this report, these events took place in the provinces of Sarpol, Jawzjan, Baghlan, Kunduz, Balkh, Daikundi, Badakhshan, Bamyan, Parwan, Ghor, Farah, Samangan, Faryab, Nangarhar, Kandahar, Wardak Square, Kabul, Uruzgan, Kapisa, Nimroz, Herat, Paktia, Helmand, and Ghazni have been registered.

In its report, this organization has emphasized that the Taliban are responsible for these events and the fact that the Taliban are not tried in connection with these cases is the reason for the increase in sexual assault in Afghanistan.