In response to recent remarks made by the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, the Women’s Movement for Peace and Freedom has expressed its strong disapproval, calling out her remarks as being irresponsible.
The Women’s Movement for Peace and Freedom has issued a statement strongly opposing “the United Nations’ efforts to recognize the Taliban group”, arguing that recognizing them goes against the very values that the United Nations is supposed to uphold. The movement further argues that recognizing the Taliban will mean ignoring the plight of Afghan women and neglecting the UN’s main mission in Afghanistan.
Against the backdrop of the difficult situation faced by Afghan women under the rule of the Taliban, the Women’s Movement for Peace and Freedom has spoken out against the recent remarks made by Amina Mohammed and the possibility of recognizing the Taliban in Doha. The movement has criticized Mohammed’s words as being irresponsible and hasty, given the Taliban’s history of suppressing women’s rights.
“While, over the past twenty months, the Taliban have effectively removed women from public life and stripped them of their basic freedoms, including the right to leave their own homes, it is irresponsible and hasty to make such remarks,” the statement reads.
“The meeting that is going to be held on May 1st by the United Nations in order to recognize the Taliban in Qatar is a great injustice to the people of Afghanistan,” told Parwana Ebrahimkhel, the general chairwoman of the Women’s Movement for Peace and Freedom, to Nimrokh.
“This meeting will be nothing but an attempt to whitewash the black faces of terrorists who did not abide by any laws and human rights and violated all human rights laws,” she added.
The Women’s Movement for Peace and Freedom has called on other institutions, active currents, national and international figures, anti-Taliban fronts, and women’s movements to take a clear and unambiguous stance against the United Nations’ plan to recognize the Taliban, asking them not to let “the United Nations officials surrender to the inhumane demands of the Taliban and their gender apartheid regime and bury Afghan women alive.”
These reactions come at a time when an UN-hosted meeting is set to take place in Doha, Qatar, in less than two weeks. The meeting will discuss preparations for recognizing the Taliban, and the Women’s Movement for Peace and Freedom is among many groups expressing concern about the implications of such recognition.
Amina Mohammed, the UN Deputy Secretary-General, has stated that the agenda for the upcoming meeting in Doha on May 1, 2023, is to discuss the possibility of recognizing Taliban control as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.
