Taliban authorities have additional elevated restrictions on ladies and ladies in Afghanistan in latest months, together with in schooling and employment, the UN stated in a report on the human rights state of affairs issued Monday.
Taliban’s Ministry of Public Well being has introduced that solely males shall be allowed to take exams to pursue specialised medical research, the UN mission in Afghanistan stated within the report, which covers developments in Might and June.
That follows a ban on feminine medical college students taking commencement exams introduced in February and a prohibition on ladies attending universities issued final December, the report stated.
The UN stated it has recorded cases during which the Taliban have enforced beforehand introduced limitations on ladies’s freedom of motion and employment.
In early Might, two Afghan feminine employees of a global non-governmental organisation have been arrested by Taliban forces at an airport as a result of they have been travelling and not using a male companion or mahram, the report stated.
“In June, a midwife was detained and interrogated for 5 hours by the Taliban’s intelligence service, which threatened her with loss of life if she continued her work with an NGO. She resigned two days later because of this,” the report stated.
Two different NGOs had their licenses suspended by the de facto Division of Financial system due to the presence of feminine workers of their workplaces, it stated.
There have additionally been experiences of bodily violence in opposition to ladies, together with an incident during which members of the Taliban’s vice and advantage division beat a girl with a stick and compelled her to go away a public park, it stated.
Regardless of preliminary guarantees of a extra reasonable rule than throughout their earlier interval in energy within the Nineteen Nineties, the Taliban have imposed harsh measures since seizing Afghanistan in August 2021 as US and NATO forces have been pulling out.
They’ve barred ladies from most areas of public life and work and cracked down on media freedoms.
They’ve banned ladies from going to highschool past the sixth grade and prohibited Afghan ladies from working at native and non-governmental organisations. The ban was prolonged to workers of the United Nations in April.
The measures have triggered a fierce worldwide uproar, rising the nation’s isolation at a time when its financial system has collapsed and worsening a humanitarian disaster.
Below the primary Taliban regime from 1996 to 2001, public corporal punishment and executions have been carried out by officers in opposition to individuals convicted of crimes, usually in sports activities stadiums.
In June, the Taliban carried out what’s believed to be its second public execution because it returned to energy.
The primary was final December, when a person convicted of murdering one other man was executed with an assault rifle by the sufferer’s father in western Farah province earlier than a whole lot of spectators and plenty of high Taliban officers.
The second was a person recognized as Ajmal within the capital, Kabul, who was discovered responsible of murdering 5 individuals final 12 months.
In Might, the UN stated 274 males, 58 ladies and two boys had been publicly flogged in the course of the earlier six months.
