OIC delegation to be in Afghanistan to discuss women’s right to education, employment

Kabul [Afghanistan], January 14 (ANI): Amid the continuing violation of the rights of Afghan girls below the Taliban regime, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has deliberate to ship a delegation to the nation to debate girls’s rights to training and employment with the de-facto authorities, Khaama Press reported.

The choice got here after the OIC Secretary-Basic Hissein Brahim Taha, in a gathering in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia stated that it’s the want of the hour to focus on issues over the restrictions imposed by the Taliban on girls’s rights in Afghanistan.

The mission, he continued, would think about the Taliban authorities’s actions towards Afghan girls and ladies’ elementary rights to employment, training, and social justice.

The most recent motion by the Taliban to ban girls from working in NGOs generated protests by feminine college college students and ladies activists in a number of areas of the nation, in addition to introduced condemnations, globally.

Some international governments, together with these of the USA, the UK, Germany, the European Union (EU), United Nations (UN), OIC, and different worldwide support organisations, strongly condemned the motion and urged the Taliban caretaker authorities to raise the ban and allow Afghan women and girls to pursue their educations and proceed their work with NGOs, Khaama Press reported.

Since 15 August 2021, the de facto authorities have barred ladies from attending secondary faculty, restricted girls and ladies’ freedom of motion, excluded girls from most areas of the workforce and banned girls from utilizing parks, gyms and public bathtub homes.

These restrictions culminate with the confinement of Afghan girls and ladies to the 4 partitions of their houses.

In accordance with a UNICEF report launched in August, the truth that ladies in Afghanistan are disadvantaged of secondary training has price the nation’s financial system no less than USD 500 million over the previous 12 months, which quantities to 2.5 per cent of GDP. (ANI)