“Being a woman is considered a sin, even a crime, in Afghanistan”

Ie 8 March, the whole world is celebrating International Women’s Day. At the same time, the 67^e session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meets from March 6 to 17 in New York, on the theme ” Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls “.

During this session, the theme of the conclusions concerns the “ Challenges and Opportunities to Achieve Gender Equality and Empowerment of Rural Women and Girls “. In this same dynamic, the Member States of the United Nations organize events, round tables, political debates, discussions on equality to mark this International Day of Women’s Rights.

An ancillary condition

There is, however, a country in which, since August 15, 2021, being a woman is considered a sin, even a crime: Afghanistan. On August 15, 2021, Afghanistan ceased to be a democratic republic and became a haven for terrorists. Since the takeover by the Taliban, Afghanistan has changed color. It is today a country in which the population lives in the worst conditions, where women and girls suffer.

Since the capture of Kabul, the Republic has become the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan led by the supreme leader of the Taliban, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada. The Constitution of January 3, 2004, drawn up under the first mandate of President Hamid Karzai and whose preamble guaranteed the observance of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, has been frozen. Like any dictatorial power, the Taliban govern by decrees, decrees which essentially aim to maintain women in an ancillary condition.

While Article 22 of the 2004 Constitution proclaimed that “the citizens of Afghanistan, men and women, have equal rights and duties before the law”the Taliban announced, in March 2022, the prohibition of secondary schools for girls and deprived of education nearly 3.5 million Afghan adolescent girls.

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A few months later, on December 20, 2022, they prohibited them from entering public and private universities. That’s not all. On May 7, 2022, they made it compulsory to wear the full veil in public, before banning women and young girls from going to parks, public baths and traveling alone.

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