Mujahid: Islamic Emirate Committed to Rights of People

The Islamic Emirate rejected UN expert reports regarding the violation of women’s rights in the country, saying that women’s rights are protected more than ever before.

The Islamic Emirate’s spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said that the issue of women’s rights is an internal issue of Afghanistan and that other countries should not interfere in it.

“We should not believe their false slogans. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan recognizes and is committed to the rights of all people. The government is obliged to honor the rights that Islam has given to the people,” Mujahid said.

Earlier, UN experts, who were drawing attention to the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan, said in a news release that “gender apartheid” must be recognized as a crime against humanity due to growing worldwide issues.

Experts stressed that the designation of gender apartheid as a crime against humanity would be a long overdue recognition by the international community.

“The Taliban’s rule makes codifying gender apartheid in international law particularly urgent, as it would allow the international community to better identify and address the regime’s attacks on Afghan women and girls for what they are,” the experts said.

“If we want Allah, the world and the Afghan people to be satisfied with us as a government, we must give the citizens all their basic rights,” said Zakiullah Mohammadi, a university lecturer.

Meanwhile, some women’s rights activists asked the Islamic Emirate to guarantee their future by providing their fundamental rights, including the right to work and education.

“We ask the government to open schools and universities and allow women to work. Don’t let the countries call out our pain,” said Fazela Sorush, a women’s rights activist.

This comes as the acting Minister of Higher Education, Neda Mohammad Nadim, on Tuesday in a seminar in Kabul criticized the holding of meetings on Afghanistan abroad, saying that what is raised about women’s rights in these meetings is untrue.

Speaking during the seminar, Nadim said that now more than ever, women’s rights are protected in the country.