The UN Security Council told Afghanistan Taliban rulers on Monday that peace and wealth are ‘unreachable’ until they reversing their ban on women and girls to get an education, employ, and speak publicly.
The UN’s most powerful body also condemned continuous terrorist activities in Afghanistan “in the strongest terms” and asked for strengthening efforts to address the country’s serious economic and humanitarian situation.
The council’s resolution, which was unanimously adopted by its 15 members, expanded the UN political mission in Afghanistan, known as Unama, until March 17, 2026.
The Taliban seized power in 2021 when the US and NATO forces withdrew after two decades of war. No country officially recognizes them as the government of Afghanistan because of their suppression of women.
Not only are women being banned from working on many public spaces, and are trained outside the sixth class, but they must be fully veiled and their votes cannot be heard in public.
The Security Council called on the Taliban to quickly reverse these policies and practices. ‘
Special envoy Roza Otunbayeva, the head of Unama, told the Security Council last week that it is to the Taliban to indicate whether they want Afghanistan to re -integrate into the international system – “and if so, whether they are willing to take the necessary steps.”
Taliban chief spokesman Zabihuff Mujahid posted a statement on his official X account this month stating that the dignity, honor and legal rights of women were a priority for the country, in accordance with Islamic law and Afghan culture and traditions. Islamic countries and religious scholars said that the denial of women’s education and work is not part of Islamic law.
Otunbayeva said Afghanen “increasingly resisted the intrusions of their private lives” by Taliban officials and fears the country’s further isolation of the rest of the world.
“Indeed, they have welcomed an absence of conflict and greater stability and freedom of movement, at least for the male population,” she said. “But it is not a peace in which they can live in dignity with their human rights respected and confidently in a stable future.”
More than half of the population of Afghanistan – about 23 million people – needs humanitarian help, a humanitarian crisis caused by decades of conflict, entrenched poverty, climate shocks and major population growth, said Otunbayeva. She said that a downturn in financing has a significant impact.
The UN Evante said over the past month, more than 200 health facilities were forced to close, affecting about 1.8 million people, including malnourished children.
On another major case, the Security Council urged the Taliban to strengthen, strengthen all terrorist activities in Afghanistan, and demand that the country not be used to threaten or attack any other country.
The relationship between Afghanistan and the neighboring Pakistan has increased since Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-E-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, which is associated with the Afghan Taliban, has increased the attacks on security for pakistan security. At the same time, militants from the Afghan chapter of the Islamic State group, which opposes the Taliban, carried out bomb attacks over Afghanistan.
