It emerged when the top UN rights forum in Geneva approved the request of member countries for an urgent debate about this issue this Friday.
Speaking to the council, Fawzia Koofi, a former Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Parliament, said the lack of sick opportunities and mental health, taking a terrible victim: “Every day there are at least one or two women who commit suicide due to lack of opportunities, for mental health, for pressure they received.
The fact that girls are sold for nine years, not only because of economic pressure, but because of the fact that there is no hope for them, for their families, it is not normal.”
Echoing the widespread international concerns against ordinary Afghanistan, the Head of UN Human Rights Michelle Bachelet condemned the large -fellow unemployment of women, restrictions placed in the way they dress, and their access to basic services.
Women’s business and operated have been closed, Ms. Bachelet added, saying that 1.2 million girls no longer had access to secondary education, in line with the decision by the de facto authority which took over power in August 2021.
The de facto authority that I met during my visit in March this year, said they would respect their human rights obligations as far as [to] in line with sharia law.
But apart from this guarantee, we witnessed the progressive exceptions of women and girls from their public spaces and oppression which were institutionalized and systematic”.
Bachelet encourages the re -formation of an independent mechanism to receive complaints from the public and protect victims of gender -based violence.
Besides that, that’s also a matter of practical needs,” said the high commissioner. “In the midst of the economic crisis, women’s contribution to economic activities is needed, which naturally requires access to education, and freedom of movement and from violence”.
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