{"id":341164,"date":"2022-12-28T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T05:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=341164"},"modified":"2023-04-05T01:34:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T07:04:39","slug":"taliban-says-no-to-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/taliban-says-no-to-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban says \u2018No\u2019 to Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After Taliban took over Afghanistan on August 15, 2021 the country and its citizens are facing many stringent restrictions , specially women who are facing restrictions on their basic rights of Education. Taliban have been seen increasing the curbs on women time and gain. Recently , the Talibans banned women from Universities in Afghanistan,. Not only women but girls are also restricted from schools. Many women protesters from Afghanistan Women\u2019s Unity and Solidarity group raised their voices against these\u00a0 restrictions imposed by Taliban but soon these demonstrations were shut down by Taliban officials. \u201c They destroyed my\u00a0 future\u2019\u2019 said a Kabul University student.\u00a0 The United Nations has also raised serious objections to Taliban policies.<\/p>\n

In September 2021, The Taliban’s said that the women can attend Universities but will only be allowed to be taught by the professors\u00a0 of same sex or elderly people. After few months , they shut down the Secondary Schools education for girls. Due to these restrictions many school going girls got disappointed as they were being deprived of their basic rights. \u2018\u2019 I want to study and make my career in Medicine but they have ordered us to stay home.\u2019\u2019 said Zaiba a school going girl.<\/p>\n

The Atrocities of Talibans did not stop here, after some time the\u00a0 girls and women\u2019s\u00a0 were prohibited from entering public places like parks , gyms and malls. Women were also forced to cover themselves in public places. They have to cover themselves completely including their faces. In the series of bans recently Taliban guards stopped hundreds of young girls also from entering the college campus. They suspended the education of women till further orders.<\/p>\n

United Nations has also raised objections on Taliban\u2019s restrictions on women . The UN\u00a0 Secretary- General Antonio Guterres \u00a0<\/strong>decried increasing restrictions on women\u2019s rights in Afghanistan, urging the country\u2019s Taliban rulers to reverse them immediately. United Nations Secretary Council reiterated its deep concern of the suspension of schools beyond the sixth grade. The Equal and meaningful participation of women and girls in Afghanistan is needed,\u201d it said in a press release.<\/p>\n

United Nations\u00a0 High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T\u00fcrk said in a statement issued in Geneva that no country can develop or prosper if one section of the population will be excluded. Everbody should be treated equally, he said that he fears that this will pose risk beyond\u00a0 Afghanistan borders.<\/p>\n

They also urged to reopen schools and allow women to go for work. The UN also said that no country can develop and survive if human rights are violated. These restrictions will only increase the sufferings of Afghanistan. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T\u00fcrk also said that banning women from working in NGOs would only decrease the income of Afghan people. \u201cWomen and girls cannot be denied from their basic rights\u201d added Turk.<\/p>\n

Many Afghan families residing in India are also criticizing the policies of Talibans. They are concerned about their friends and families who are still in Afghanistan and are forced to accept the bans levied on them. Though they are happy that they are in India but fear for the people of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Taliban took over Afghanistan on August 15, 2021 the country and its citizens are facing many stringent restrictions , specially women who are facing restrictions on their basic rights of Education. Taliban have been seen increasing the curbs on women time and gain. Recently , the Talibans banned women from Universities in Afghanistan,. Not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":341169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[1740],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342900,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341164\/revisions\/342900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/341169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}