{"id":117209,"date":"2023-09-27T09:10:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T06:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/yleinen\/engagement-key-to-reform-of-taliban-decrees-restricting-womens-rights\/"},"modified":"2023-09-27T09:10:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T06:10:45","slug":"engagement-key-to-reform-of-taliban-decrees-restricting-womens-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/yleinen\/engagement-key-to-reform-of-taliban-decrees-restricting-womens-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Engagement key to reform of Taliban decrees restricting women\u2019s rights"},"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\/117209\" \/>\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 international community must continue to engage with Taliban leaders in Afghanistan despite deep disagreement with their approach to women\u2019s rights and inclusive governance, the UN Special Representative for the country told the Security Council on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Roza Otunbayeva, who also heads the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), called for a \u201creframed engagement strategy\u201d, expressing concern over the \u201clack of positive direction\u201d in current efforts. \u201cThe lack of trust on all sides is a serious impediment to building confidence but the doors to dialogue are still open,\u201d she said. \u201cThis moment, despite its problems, is an opportunity. We must ensure that the doors to dialogue are not shut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Otunbayeva said engagement has been significantly undermined by the more than 50 Taliban decrees aimed at eliminating women from public life and education. \u201cThe policies that drive the exclusion of women are unacceptable to the international community,\u201d she said. She also cited a new UN report based on more than 500 interviews with Afghan women, 46 per cent of whom said the Taliban should not be recognized under any circumstances. \u201cThe question, however, is whether to continue engaging with the de facto authorities despite these policies, or to cease engaging because of them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUNAMA\u2019s view is that we must continue to engage and to maintain a dialogue. \u201cDialogue is not recognition. Engagement is not acceptance of these policies. On the contrary: dialogue and engagement are how we are attempting to change these policies.\u201d Ms. Otunbayeza told the Council that this engagement could be more structured and purposeful while remaining principled. \u201cA reframed engagement strategy must first acknowledge that the de facto authority bears responsibility for the well-being of the Afghan people, in all dimensions but especially concerning women,\u201d she stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Other components would include mechanisms to address the de facto authorities\u2019 long-term concerns, as well as \u201ca sincere intra-Afghan dialogue of the sort that was interrupted when the Taliban took power in August 2021.\u201d Additionally, \u201ca more coherent position of the international community\u201d would also be required. Sima Bahous, head of the UN\u2019s gender equality agency, UN Women, also briefed the Council. She told ambassadors that Taliban decrees are costing Afghanistan roughly one billion dollars a year, which will only increase.<\/p>\n<p>The edicts are also exacerbating the dire humanitarian situation in a country where more than two-thirds of the population depend on assistance to survive and some 20 million, mainly women and girls, are facing acute hunger. She insisted that the way forward must be guided by women\u2019s voices and the principles of the UN Charter. \u201cThe past is full of examples of neglecting or ignoring women; the present is filled with the consequences. So, the future must be focused on listening to, investing in, and supporting women, as well as including them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Bahous recommended that the Security Council Committee that oversees sanctions against Afghanistan convene a session to examine the role it can play in responding to violations of women\u2019s rights in the country. \u201cWe must consider the messages we send when we frame the situation in Afghanistan purely or exclusively as a humanitarian crisis,\u201d she further advised. \u201cIt is an economic crisis, a mental health crisis, a development crisis, and more. And the thread that connects these different facets is the underlying women\u2019s rights crisis. This must be the primary lens through which we understand what is going on and what we must do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also urged ambassadors to fully support efforts to explicitly codify \u201cgender apartheid\u201d in international law. \u201cThis systematic and planned assault on women\u2019s rights is foundational to the Taliban\u2019s vision of state and society and it must be named, defined and proscribed in our global norms so that we can respond appropriately,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Legal expert Karima Bennoune, who also briefed ambassadors, recalled that some Afghan women activists recently went on a hunger strike to demand that the international community recognize that gender apartheid is being practiced in their country. \u201cThis Council has repeatedly called on the Taliban to end its grave abuses, but there is more you must do to hold them accountable for their decimation of women&#8217;s rights. I am here today to ask the Council to make clear through action that the international community will not tolerate the system of gender apartheid the Taliban have imposed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2023\/09\/1141477\">The UN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/yleinen\/engagement-key-to-reform-of-taliban-decrees-restricting-womens-rights\/\">Engagement key to reform of Taliban decrees restricting women\u2019s rights<\/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":[22,1],"tags":[1045,402,606,607,608,568,655],"class_list":["post-117209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-yleinen","tag-afghanistan","tag-un","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien","tag-women","tag-yleinen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117209","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=117209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}