The holding of the “Afghan Women’s Days” meeting in the European Parliament is in fact a demonstration of the power of women against the Taliban terrorist group. A serious response and a slap in the face of political, intelligence lobbyists who have allowed a terrorist group to lobby for recognition in recent weeks by holding the Oslo summit.
A two-day meeting called “Afghan Women’s Days” is being held in the European Parliament, while six months have passed since the re-emergence of the Taliban terrorist group in Afghanistan. An event that failed twenty years of opportunity, struggle, and fighting for equality and human rights by women.
The meeting was attended by a number of Afghan women to step further than the streets of Kabul this time and to speak in the European Parliament about the narratives, judgments, and demands of Afghan women, and to share them with European governments. It is under one roof, which serves as a large umbrella to protect human rights and political civil liberties.
The women attending the meeting were human rights activists, political activists, ministers, politicians, members of parliament, governors, mayors, and presidents. A woman is the representative of art, music, and singing. A woman has held a photo exhibition of “The Unseen Face of Afghan Women”. A film was shown that was directed by a woman.
These are women who have been part of a collective effort for a more humane life in Afghanistan for the past twenty years. They know the political situation in Afghanistan. They recognize the violent power struggle in Afghanistan. For the past twenty years, they have worked with the international community to support Afghanistan and its women. These women! They know the language of human rights. Understand the language of politics and diplomatic dialogue. They are also well_known in the political, human rights, art, music, cinema, and culture among Afghanistan people.
But the important thing is that in this group, I do not know a woman who is not a victim of violence, inequality, and gender discrimination.
Who is not the victim of the masculine views and beliefs that have dominated the collective destiny of Afghan women throughout history. The important thing is that there is no woman in this group who, from family to society and politics, has not paid for their living opportunities with inequality. I do not know a woman in this group who is not a victim of some kind of insult and humiliation. The important thing is that they represent all the women of Afghanistan who have endured all the misery and suffering that a person suffers due to gender in Afghanistan. It is important that the members of this group have an equal share, equal wounds, and equal pain in all the women of this country who suffer in an anti_feminist Afghanistan. The presence of each member of this group is an important opportunity to advance the struggle for women’s equality in Afghanistan. Holding a two_day meeting to cast light on the worrying situation for Afghan women is so important while Afghanistan has fallen in control of a terrorist group.
The holding of the “Afghan Women’s Days” meeting in the European Parliament is in fact a demonstration of the power of women against the Taliban terrorist group. A serious response and a slap in the face of political, intelligence lobbyists who have allowed a terrorist group to lobby for recognition in recent weeks by holding the Oslo summit.
In the current situation where Afghan women have no mechanism or structure to send their elected representatives to the European Parliament, the key issue is that any woman who is a voice and advocate for the human rights and basic rights of Afghan women is the representative of Afghan women.
The members of this group are as much the voice of Afghan women as the voice of protesting women on the streets of Kabul. Perhaps more than 90 percent of young and educated girls protesting on the streets of Kabul against the Taliban are different from their mothers in terms of socio-political understanding, beliefs, behavior, and social character. But it is the suffering of being a woman that unites Afghan women and that everyone has an equal share.
It is important for the women of Afghanistan that every voice stands in support of human rights values and women’s rights and their claim to equality is the same voice! It is the voice of Afghan women. Whether this sound is on the roads of Kabul. Whether on Twitter or in the Clubhouse. Every single Afghan woman who protests against the Taliban from Kabul to Europe, from Canada to the United States and Australia, is the voice of Afghan women. Provided it is not aligned with the Taliban and intelligence programs that are explicitly working to compliment the Taliban.
The two-day meeting of the European Parliament is, in fact, a demonstration of the special power of women against the Taliban. A force that on one hand on the streets of Kabul is pressing on the throat of the Taliban and on the other hand is trying to catch up with the European governments’ collars through lawsuits and protests and prevent the intelligence process from recognizing the Taliban as a government in Afghanistan.
So it is time for women to ignore petty differences and tastes, and all stand together in unison against the enemies of their rights, freedom, and humanity.
