UN report says its female staff in Afghanistan have received death threats

Taliban rulers accidental they are not down the threats and are investigating, according to the United Nations.

Explicit decease threats person been made against dozens of Afghan women moving for the United Nations successful Afghanistan, according to a caller UN report, wherever their rights person been severely curtailed since the Taliban returned to powerfulness successful 2021.

The UN ngo to the state said pistillate nationalist unit were subjected to nonstop decease threats successful May, successful the latest update connected the quality rights concern successful Afghanistan published connected Sunday.

The study says the Taliban told the UN ngo that their cadres were not liable for the threats, and an Interior Ministry probe is nether way.

The threats came from unidentified individuals related to their enactment with the UN Assistance Mission successful Afghanistan, oregon UNAMA, different agencies, funds, and programmes, “requiring the U.N. to instrumentality interim measures to support their safety”, according to the report.

Afghan authorities, including the Taliban Interior Ministry, didn’t instantly respond to requests for remark connected the study oregon the investigation, according to The Associated Press quality agency.

The Taliban barred Afghan women from moving astatine home and overseas nongovernmental organisations successful December 2022, extending this prohibition to the UN six months later. They past threatened to unopen down agencies and groups inactive employing women. Aid agencies and NGOs accidental the Taliban person disrupted oregon interfered with their operations, allegations denied by authorities.

The UN study is the archetypal authoritative confirmation of decease threats against Afghan women moving successful the sector. The study besides highlighted different areas affecting women’s idiosyncratic freedoms and safety, including inspectors from the Vice and Virtue Ministry requiring women to deterioration a chador, a full-body cloak covering the head. Women person been arrested for lone wearing the hijab.

Women person besides been denied entree to nationalist areas, successful enactment with laws banning them from specified spaces.

A UN study from August 2024 recovered that Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities has “deliberately deprived” astatine slightest 1.4 cardinal girls of their close to an education during its 3 years successful power.

About 300,000 much girls are missing retired connected schoolhouse since UNESCO past carried retired a number successful April 2023, it said connected Thursday, informing that “the aboriginal of an full procreation is present successful jeopardy.”

ICC targets Taliban for persecution of women

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued apprehension warrants successful July for 2 apical Taliban leaders successful Afghanistan connected charges of abuses against women and girls.

ICC judges said astatine the clip determination were “reasonable grounds” to fishy Taliban Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhunzada and Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani of committing gender-based persecution.

“While the Taliban person imposed definite rules and prohibitions connected the colonisation arsenic a whole, they person specifically targeted girls and women by crushed of their gender, depriving them of cardinal rights and freedoms,” the tribunal said successful a connection successful July.

The Taliban has “severely deprived” girls and women of the rights to education, privacy, household beingness and the freedoms of movement, expression, thought, conscience and religion, ICC judges said.

The Taliban has rejected the ICC warrants arsenic “baseless rhetoric”, saying it does not recognise the ICC’s authority, and underlined the court’s nonaccomplishment to support the “hundreds of women and children being killed daily” successful Gaza.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies