Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD/UNITED NATIONS: UN spokesman said that a delegation led by a high-ranking woman at the United Nations (UN) urged the Taliban during a four-day visit to Kabul that ended on Friday to reverse their restrictions on girls and women. Some Taliban authorities were more open to restoring women’s rights, but others were opposed.
UN delegation met with Taliban
The UN team members met with the Taliban in Kabul and the southern city of Kandahar. It has not released the names of any of the Taliban authorities. The meeting focused on the restrictive measures the Taliban imposed on girls and women when they took power in August 2021, after the NATO and US forces’ pulled out after 20 years of war.
Amina Mohammed, headed by UN Deputy Secretary-General, found that some Taliban authorities “have been cooperative, and they have received some signs of progress,” said Farhan Haq, United Nations deputy spokesman. “A key thing is to reconcile the Taliban authorities they have met who have been more helpful with those who have not.”
Farhan stressed that “there are many points of authority” among the Taliban officials and that the UN team could try to get them to “work together to advance the aims that we want, which include, most crucially, bringing girls and women bring back to the full enjoyment of their women’s rights.”
Mohammed, a former Nigerian Cabinet minister, and Muslim was joined on a trip by Sima Bahous, executive director of United Nations Women, which promotes women’s rights and gender equality rights, and Assistant Secretary-General for political affairs Khaled Khiari.Monitoring Desk
