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The United Nations invited the jihadist Taliban terrorist organization to a two-day conference on Afghanistan in Doha, Qatar, next weekend, its third such meeting since the Taliban seized power in 2021.
“Excluding women risks legitimizing the Taliban’s abuses and triggering irreparable harm to the U.N.’s credibility as an advocate for women’s rights and women’s meaningful participation,”“What is happening in Afghanistan is the most serious women’s rights crisis in the world and the idea that the U.N. would convene a meeting like this and not discuss women’s rights and not have Afghan women in the room is beyond belief,” said Heather Barr, another HRW representative.
“Caving into the Taliban’s conditions to secure their participation in the talks would risk legitimizing their gender-based institutionalized system of oppression – a system that has sought to erase women and girls from society by callously stripping them of their most fundamental rights,” Callamard said.to the first U.N. conference on Afghanistan in May 2023. The junta was invited to the second conference in February 2024, but refused to attend because its conditions were not met.
The U.N. has not formally recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan and neither has any country on Earth, including the terrorist organization’s patrons in China and Russia. As Guterres noted, barring all other Afghan voices from a U.N. conference would amount to implicitly recognizing the Taliban’s authority.
“Unfortunately, the international community wants to deal with the Taliban, and that is why their own agenda has always been more important to them than the women of Afghanistan, democracy, or anything else,” said Habiba Sarabi, the first female governor of Afghanistan under the legitimate government and also a former minister of women’s affairs.U.N.
According to Otunbayeva, the weekend conference in Doha will focus on “helping Afghan private businesses, addressing financial and banking sector issues, and finding alternate livelihoods for farmers affected by the Taliban’s nationwide ban on opium poppy cultivation.”
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