UN Chief urges world to support Afghan women

UN SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres has urged the world to support Afghan women stating that it is a struggle on many fronts in Afghanistan Khaama Press reportedGuterres while affressing the UN Committee on the Status of Women on Monday said that they have been supporting schools wherever it is possible schools with girls in the secondary levelThe donor community has said there will only be aid where women are involved Where women are not involved the aid will not be present So the pressure goes on to guarantee that we have women working in the humanitarian sector In the public services few women are working and we are fighting hard to increase it he said stated Afghanistanbased Khaama PressThe UN Commission on the Status of Women started on Monday to assess the situation of women around the world and will continue till March 17 The situation of women particularly in Afghanistan will be discussed by representatives worldwide according to Khaama PressAlso Read Bomb kills 1 wounds 5 at press award event in AfghanistanGuterres also raised concerns about closing universities and secondary schools for women and girlsIt has been more than 530 days since the schools for female students have remained closed The Islamic Emirate also in a recent decree banned female students from going to universities Tolo News has reportedThe UN SecretaryGeneral had last week said that the United Nations would continue demanding the fundamental rights of women and girls in Afghanistan under any circumstancesThe UN recently said that since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan the country has become the most repressive in the world for women and girls depriving them of many of their basic rightsThe UN mission in Afghanistan in a statement released on International Womens Day on March 8 said that the new Taliban leaders have demonstrated an almost singular focus on imposing rules that leave most women and girls effectively trapped in their homesRoza Isakovna Otunbayeva UN Special Representative and head of the UNs Assistance Mission in Afghanistan UNAMA strongly condemned recent Taliban decrees that have further eroded the rights of Afghan womenAfghanistan under the Taliban remains the most repressive country in the world for womens rights the senior UN official in Kabul told the Security Council on Wednesday while nevertheless voicing a nuanced position on the importance of continuing to engage with the groupAfghanistan under the Taliban remains the most repressive country in the world regarding womens rights and it has been distressing to witness their methodical deliberate and systematic efforts to push Afghan women and girls out of the public sphere said Roza OtunbayevaSince taking power in August 2021 the new leaders have banned secondary and university education for girls and women banned women from working in national and international nongovernmental organizations and ordered women to be covered from head to toeThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever