The United Nations delegation, which intends to relay the indignation caused by the measures going against women’s rights, could go to Kandahar to try to meet the supreme Taliban chief, the mullah Akhundzada.
by Jacques Follorou
It looks like a last chance journey to influence the Ultrarigorist and Repressive Policy of the Taliban regime. The highest United Nations delegation never sent to Afghanistan since the return to power of Afghan Islamists, August 15, 2021, began, Tuesday, January 17, a visit of several days punctuated by meetings with the caciques of Taliban power in Kabul. The members of this UN mission could also go to Kandahar, in the south, in the hope of meeting the supreme leader of the Taliban movement, the Mollah Haibatullah Akhundzada.
Arrival in Kabul with a day of delay because of the cold and the snow which paralyze part of the country, the deputy secretary general of the UN, Amina Mohammed, former Nigerian and Muslim minister, leads a delegation who wishes to relay The indignation of the international community in the face of recent government announcements against the rights of women and girls. She is accompanied by Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, the United Nations Agency for the Promotion of Gender Equality and Women’s Rights, and the Subsecretaire General for Political Affairs, Khaled Khiari.
Women and girls excluded from public space
Before landing in Kabul, these senior UN officials made stops in Europe, in the Middle East and Asia to ensure the support of pillars of the international community before meeting the Taliban leaders. They thus exchanged with the organization of Islamic cooperation, the Islamic Development Bank, groups of Afghan women in Ankara and Islamabad, as well as with a group of ambassadors and special envoys in Afghanistan established in Doha. At the end of these consultations, the principle of an international conference on women and girls in the Muslim world was arrested and planned for March.
This diplomatic offensive comes after a series of Taliban diet announcements to exclude women and girls from public space, including schools, parks and sports halls. On December 24, 2022, national and international non -governmental organizations (NGO) were, in turn, targeted by a decree prohibiting them from using women. Suddenly, an essential force for humanitarian aid disappeared at the very moment when Afghan populations must face hunger and a serious economic crisis. The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres had denounced, in mid-January, in this policy, the creation of a “gender-based apartheid”.
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