{"id":115096,"date":"2023-06-22T07:40:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T04:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/afghanistan-mission-chief-to-taliban-bans-on-women-and-girls-cost-you-legitimacy-at-home-and-abroad\/"},"modified":"2023-06-22T07:40:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T04:40:46","slug":"afghanistan-mission-chief-to-taliban-bans-on-women-and-girls-cost-you-legitimacy-at-home-and-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/afghanistan-mission-chief-to-taliban-bans-on-women-and-girls-cost-you-legitimacy-at-home-and-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan mission chief to Taliban: Bans on women and girls cost you legitimacy at home and abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115096\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThe multiple restrictions placed on women and girls by Afghanistan\u2019s de facto rulers are costing the Taliban \u201cboth domestic and international legitimacy\u201d and are highly unpopular across the country, said the top UN official based there on Wednesday. UN Special Representative Roza Otunbayeva was briefing the Security Council on the dire situation facing the country and the international aid effort, with UN women workers among those now prevented by Taliban edicts from working. \u201cWe will not put our national staff in danger and therefore we are asking them not to report to the office\u201d she said, adding that the UN Assistance Mission she also heads, UNAMA, has no intention of replacing them with male staff.<\/p>\n<p>She said the Taliban had given her no explanation for the ban, \u201cand no assurances that it will be lifted.\u201d She said she had been \u201cblunt\u201d with the all-male leadership about the obstacles their decrees and restrictions on women in public life were creating, which include denying schooling beyond kindergarten, bans on visiting parks, gyms and playing a role in public life in general. She has conveyed that while they persist with the human rights clamp down on women and girls, \u201cit is nearly impossible that their government will be recognized\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She said based on UNAMA\u2019s engagement with civil society around the country: \u201cit is also clear that these decrees are highly unpopular among the Afghan population. They cost the Taliban both domestic and international legitimacy while inflicting suffering on half of their population and damaging the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The UNAMA chief called on ambassadors and the international community to do more to ensure the future stability of the Afghan economy, especially in light of an expected decline in humanitarian funding this year. The spotlight on women\u2019s rights has also obscured some \u201cmore positive achievements\u201d of Taliban rule, she said, mentioning the growing evidence of an effective ban on opium poppy cultivation.<\/p>\n<p>The economy too \u201cremains stable\u201d with inflation down and exchange rates steady \u2013 due in part to a reduction in high level corruption. \u201cThis macroeconomic stability, however, coexists with severe household poverty\u201d with 58 per cent struggling to satisfy basic needs, according to the World Bank. On other areas of concern, the UNAMA head said despite concerted counter-terrorism efforts, the terrorist group ISIL-KP continued to target both Taliban official and civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Taliban takeover has led to a sharp fall in civilian casualties, she said the UN Mine Action Service was reporting there continue to be around 100 casualties per month from unexploded ordinance. In conclusion, she told the Council that UNAMA and the UN system in Afghanistan would continue to engage with the Taliban, building on &#8216;stablished reliable working channels&#8217;. \u201cWe could do much more however, if the Taliban rescinded its punishing restrictions on its female population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shabana Basij-Rasikh, the co-founder of Afghan girls\u2019 education non-profit SOLA, told ambassadors she had lived through the darkness of Taliban rule in the 1990s and the secret schools she attended, are back. \u201cI am the inheritor of the bravery of Afghan women and men too, who kindled fires in the darkness of our nation as the world\u2019s attention drifted away. Those fires are burning even now. The secret schools have reopened in Kabul and the provinces. My school SOLA, forced into exile, is thriving in Rwanda\u201d. She said a record 2,000 applications had been received from Afghan communities spread across the world. \u201c2,000 fires in the darkness, and each one represents the unquenchable, and unconquerable desire for access to the basic human right of education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is our task &#8211; the world\u2019s task &#8211; to ensure that these flames never go out\u201d, she said. \u201cWhat we want is summed up in a single world. That word is stability. And what makes that word possible is education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2023\/06\/1137962\">The UN<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/afghanistan-mission-chief-to-taliban-bans-on-women-and-girls-cost-you-legitimacy-at-home-and-abroad\/\">Afghanistan mission chief to Taliban: Bans on women and girls cost you legitimacy at home and abroad<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[10496,555,4934,568],"class_list":["post-115096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-afhganistamn","tag-csr-news-en","tag-girls","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}