MONITORING (SW) – The United Nations special rapporteurs, in a report referring to the Islamic Emirate’s promise to start women’s education and work without providing a timetable, has said that gender discrimination has been institutionalized in Afghanistan.
Richard Bennett, the special rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council presented the report of their eight-day trip in Geneva, Switzerland. He said that the Islamic Emirate is governed by the most extreme forms of misogyny and that they are destroying the relative progress achieved in the direction of gender equality in the last two decades.
In this report, it is also stated that the authorities of the Islamic Emirate have assured the work of women in the health, education and business sectors in accordance with Sharia and separately from men, the reopening of schools for girls above the sixth grade and the continuation of women’s work, without providing a specific timetable. .
During the trip to Afghanistan from April 27th to May 4th, the UN reporters met with the officials of the Islamic Emirate, civil activists, a group of women and religious leaders, teachers and journalists, victims of human rights violations and United Nations institutions.
A number of women’s rights activists who have met with the UN reporters say that they are waiting for a positive response after the report of the UN reporters.
Frouzan Daudzi, a women’s rights activist who met with the UN reporters, told Salam Watandar: “We asked for the removal of restrictions on work and education in our meeting with the UN reporters. But so far we have not received a convincing answer, and we expect to receive an answer, and if we do not receive an answer, the presentation of this report will not change the situation of women.”
The full report of the UN rapporteurs on the human rights situation in Afghanistan is supposed to be presented in July at the 53rd session of the UN Human Rights Council.
Bilal Karimi, the deputy spokesman of the Islamic Emirate, however, rejecting the report of the UN reporters, says that now, 98 thousand women are working in the education and health departments, the Ministry of Interior and Finance in the transportation and airports sectors. “So I have to say that the objective facts in our country are no longer a thing for consideration, and unfortunately, the reports published from outside did not understand the facts in a good way.”
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