OIC urges Taliban to respect women’s rights in Afghanistan
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation emphasized support for the rights of Afghan women and girls, particularly their right to education and employment, through the issuance of a resolution.
During its fifteenth session, which was attended by the Taliban delegation, the organization underscored the necessity of forming an inclusive government in Afghanistan.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s session occurred on Saturday, May 4th, in Banjul, the capital of Gambia, with heads of state and foreign ministers of member countries and concluded on Sunday.
Part of this resolution refers to support for Afghanistan as “peaceful, stable, and inclusive,” emphasizing addressing the challenges faced by the Afghan people, including humanitarian, human rights, national security, terrorism, and narcotics challenges.
Member countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, in this resolution, “emphasized the importance of full respect for human rights, especially the rights of women to work and education,” and called for increased engagement with the Taliban on these issues.
“Reaffirm our support for a peaceful, stable, prosperous and inclusive Afghanistan and, in this regard, reiterate the need to address the challenges faced by Afghan people, such as humanitarian, human rights, ethnic groups, security and terrorism, narcotics and social challenges,” the statement said.
in addition, the organization also emphasized “Stress the importance of full respect for the human rights of all Afghans and the need to protect the fundamental rights of Afghan girls and women, especially the right to education and work, and call for more communication with the de facto authorities on these issues. We also emphasize the need to make more efforts to address the challenges associated with ethnic groups, terrorism, drugs and social aspects for inclusive governance to achieve sustainable stability.”
Previously, the organization had also emphasized women’s right to education, but the Taliban rejected the requests of this organization and other major Muslim countries.
Despite the emphasis of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on securing the rights of Afghan women, the Secretary-General of this organization stated that they would continue their interaction with the Taliban within the framework of a humanitarian approach.
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