Washington revealed, on Tuesday, that it imposed new sanctions on the Taliban group for violating the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan, as the Taliban prevents women from learning and studying and closing schools indefinitely.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinkkin said in a statement on the tenth anniversary of International Girl’s Day, “Today, it was revealed that limits on awarding visas.
Taliban militants, both current and former, as well as those parties accountable for or complicit in the brutality and limitations used to repress women and girls in Afghanistan.
He added that Afghanistan is “a year ago, the only country in the world in which girls are prohibited from a systematic way from going to school after the sixth grade, without waving any date on the horizon” for the Taliban’s return from this decision.
Since the withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan and the Taliban restored power in Kabul on August 15, 2021, the Taliban have prevented the country’s supplementary and secondary phases in the country from returning to their schools.
On the other hand, the movement permitted university students to finish their degrees, but only under very strict guidelines, as ladies’ education is a particularly touchy subject in Afghanistan.
Blinken said in his statement, “We call on other governments to join us in taking similar measures and continue to emphasise a collective message that the Afghan government that can be considered legitimate is the one that represents all of its people and protects and strengthens human rights for everyone.
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The United States “strongly supports the Afghan people” and “remains committed to doing everything in its power to defend and strengthen the fundamental liberties and rights of all Afghans, including women and girls,” he continued.
It took the Taliban a few weeks to enforce its rigid interpretation of Islamic law, which included placing severe restrictions on women and girls in the nation to keep them out of public life.
An educational facility full of students in a neighbourhood in Kabul where the residents are members of the Shiite Hazara minority was the target of a suicide attack at the end of September that left at least 53 people dead, including at least 46 girls and young women, according to a toll released by the United Nations Mission to Help in Afghanistan.
In order to violate the rights of women and girls, the United States imposes fresh sanctions on the Taliban.
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