Oprresive policies impact girls’ dreams in Afghanistan: Amnesty International
The International Amnesty Organization has criticized certain policies affecting girls in Afghanistan, labeling them as “cruel” and describing them as a “systematic assault on a generation.” With more than two years of governance in the country, concerns have been raised about the potential for lasting harm and irreversible damage to Afghanistan’s future.
The Organization criticized human rights violations, particularly women’s rights and the cycle of gender-based violence, in a report on Thursday, April 4th. The organization stated that the Taliban has initiated a new wave of human rights violations in the past two and a half years and is violating human rights without any remorse.
According to this organization, the Taliban has systematically dissolved some key human rights-supporting institutions and deprived Afghan women and girls of their fundamental rights.
The organization’s report refers to the arbitrary detention of thousands of Afghans, torture, disappearances, and their killings, issues that have been dismissed by the Taliban despite several international reports.
Simultaneously with forced confessions by Manizha Sadat, a women’s rights activist, the head of Taliban prisons stated to domestic media that there is no torture in their prisons. Manizha Sadat claimed she wasn’t tortured in Pul-e-Charkhi prison and her condition is good.
Previously, Amnesty International and several human rights activist groups in Afghanistan expressed concerns about the torture of Ms. Sadat and her lack of access to healthcare.
The organization warned that journalists, activists, human rights defenders, artists, academics, religious and ethnic minorities in Afghanistan are still at risk.
The organization called on Taliban authorities to end gross human rights violations, retaliatory killings, attacks on religious and ethnic minorities, women and girls, and sexual minorities.
Amnesty International urged immediate reopening of schools for girls and Afghan women’s work rights, emphasizing accountability for human rights violations, including killings and disappearances.
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