A U.N. spokesman says the United Nations will proceed to have interaction all stakeholders in Afghanistan together with the Taliban, regardless that they issued a ban on ladies’s voices and naked faces in public and severed ties with the U.N. mission
ISLAMABAD — The United Nations will proceed to have interaction all stakeholders in Afghanistan, together with the Taliban, a U.N. spokesman mentioned, regardless that Afghanistan’s rulers issued a ban on ladies’s voices and naked faces in public and severed ties with the U.N. mission after it criticized them.
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric in New York defended the United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA, and its head Roza Otunbayeva, who mentioned that the brand new legal guidelines supplied a “distressing imaginative and prescient” for Afghanistan’s future.
She mentioned final week the legal guidelines lengthen the ” already insupportable restrictions ” on the rights of ladies and ladies, with “even the sound of a feminine voice” outdoors the house apparently deemed an ethical violation.
The legal guidelines had been issued after they had been accredited by supreme chief Hibatullah Akhundzada. The Taliban had arrange a ministry for the ” propagation of advantage and the prevention of vice” after seizing energy in 2021. They are saying the legal guidelines are based mostly on their interpretation of Sharia legislation.
The ministry known as on worldwide organizations, international locations and people to respect the non secular values of Muslims. It introduced on Friday that it’s going to not cooperate with UNAMA due to its criticism of the legal guidelines.
“We’ve got been very vocal on the choice to additional make ladies’s presence nearly disappear in Afghanistan. By way of the contacts with the de facto authorities, I imply, we’ll proceed to have interaction with all stakeholders in Afghanistan, together with the Taliban,” Dujarric mentioned at a information convention.
“We’ve got all the time completed so following our mandate and I might say impartially and in good religion, all the time upholding the norms of the U.N., pushing the messages of human rights and equality. And we’ll proceed our work as mandated by the Safety Council.”
