Qatar calls on Taliban to respect women’s rights

Qatari International Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani known as on the Taliban to respect Afghan ladies’s rights on Wednesday.

“His excellency known as on the Taliban to declare its insurance policies in direction of ladies and the need of working with this case in settlement with the rights assured to ladies,” the official Qatar Information Company reported on Thani’s remarks.

The diplomat additionally confused that the Taliban should allow ladies to train their rights “with out reversing what has been achieved” in reference to the comparatively improved state of ladies’s rights below the earlier internationally acknowledged Afghan authorities.

The Taliban captured practically all of Afghanistan final month amid the US navy withdrawal from the nation, which wrapped up this week. The unconventional Islamist group beforehand dominated Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 till a US-led invasion toppled them after the Sept. 11, 2001 assaults.

The Taliban’s mistreatment of ladies is well-documented, and feminine Afghanis have been confined to their houses the final time the Taliban was in energy. The group has pledged to be extra lenient this time round, although there are already studies of gender-based violence occurring.

Qatar has an extended diplomatic historical past with Afghanistan, and hosted peace talks between the Taliban and the earlier authorities earlier than the previous’s victory. Qatar additionally helped the US with its evacuation efforts from Afghanistan and has relations with the Taliban. Like different Gulf states, Qatar known as for calm following the Taliban takeover in August. Not like its neighbors Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Qatar didn’t acknowledge the Taliban authorities earlier than the US invasion.

Thani made the remarks throughout a press convention with Dutch International Minister Sigrid Kaag. He additionally known as on the Taliban to make sure “safe passage” for the foreigners nonetheless in Afghanistan following the top of the US-led evacuation, Agence France-Presse reported.

The state of affairs for ladies in Qatar has additionally been criticized by some rights teams, for instance concerning the male guardianship system. Different observers have praised Qatar for its enhancements on ladies’s points, noting ladies’s instructional alternatives within the Gulf state.