TALIBAN DE FACTO RECOGNITION SEEMINGLY BECOMES
EVEN LESS LIKELY
“Reversing all measures that restrict women’s rights to work is key to reaching the millions of people in Afghanistan that require humanitarian assistance” tweeted <PERSON> late 29th of April. A two day closed door meeting was held in Qatar’s capital, Doha, to discuss a mutual way forward on how engage with the Taliban following their recent decree that prohibits the female gender from working with any organization whatsoever.
An Edict that just later colligated the United Nations as well. Where millions of people are dependent on humanitarian aid, UN officials have emphatically expressed how much of a setback to the humanitarian involution, the restrictions on their women staff would prove to be even sending 3300 of its entire Afghan staff home just to make the point.
United Nations secretary general <PERSON> has now restituted the call once again for the Taliban to rescind the curbs placed on women’s rights to work and education as he prepared to convene a meeting of envoys from around the world to discuss the situation in the Taliban led country. Envoys that included some from the United States, China and Russia, as well as major European aid donors and key neighbors such as Pakistan are among the representatives from 25 countries and groups called in to attend the two day closed door affair on Monday.
Following the earlier on controversy stemmed from UN deputy secretary <PERSON>’s remarks, in which she suggested that the recognition of the Taliban de facto would be an agenda, Afghan women staged a protest in Kabul demanding that the United Nations not formally recognize the de facto authority as they would fight tooth and nail to regain their rights back. 328
This therefore marred controversies which prompted the UN to explicate that the Taliban recognition wasn’t one of the agendas of the meeting.
The two day Doha meeting even failed to include the Taliban in its attendance and the United States of America spokesman, <PERSON> even publicly denounced the idea of it. But the Taliban, in the words of its foreign minister spokesperson, <PERSON> to Aljazeera, “Any meeting about Afghanistan without the participation of the Afghan government (Taliban de facto) is ineffective and counterproductive,”
<PERSON>, Taliban’s ambassador designated to the UN also said the decision to exclude the IEA representatives was “discriminatory and unjustified”. Also adding that issues facing his country could only be solved through a pragmatic approach and with the participation of the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan. The meeting came as the UN reviewed its critical relief operation in the wake of the ban on women which left it facing an appalling choice on whether to maintain its huge humanitarian operation in the country. 409