EU Parliament Condemns Taliban’s Gender Apartheid Policies In Resolution
The European Union Parliament issued a resolution condemning the severe violation of human rights in Afghanistan and the Taliban's gender apartheid policies.
The European Union Parliament issued a resolution condemning the severe violation of human rights in Afghanistan and the Taliban's gender apartheid policies.
The EU Parliament said that after taking over power in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s oppression of women, civil society, human rights defenders and human rights violations has increased.
In the resolution, the representatives of the European Parliament have asked the Taliban authorities to fully implement their commitments regarding general amnesty.
The resolution had been adopted with 519 votes in favour, 15 votes against and 18 abstentions.
The EU parliament has condemned the increase in human rights violations in Afghanistan, especially arbitrary detentions, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and torture of the former security forces members.
It has also condemned the gender apartheid policy of the Taliban in the resolution and demanded reversing the severe restrictions on the rights of women and girls in line with Afghanistan's international obligations.
Furthermore, it strongly condemned various human rights violations committed by the Taliban, which encompassed the "brutal persecution of Christians" and the oppression of other religious minorities, which were seen as a deliberate attempt to eradicate religious and ideological diversity within Afghanistan.
In the resolution, the members of the European Parliament asked the European Union and its member states to increase their support for the Afghan civil society by funding specific assistance and protection programmes for human rights defenders.
During the last two years, the Taliban has issued more than fifty decrees against women. Human rights organisations have said that the group has practically excluded women from society applying strict policies.
Human rights defenders have said that the Taliban has set up "gender apartheid" in Afghanistan by gender segregation and depriving women from human and basic rights.
Earlier, human rights activists asked the international community to recognise gender apartheid in Afghanistan.
