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Brussels (The Brussels Morning Newspaper) – EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell has launched a press release on behalf of the EU on the newest rules imposed by the Taliban on the folks.
What Are the EU’s Concerns Regarding the Taliban’s Latest Decree on Afghan Women?
As per the assertion, the European Union is disgusted by the decree just lately issued by the Taliban, the so-called Law on Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The decree establishes and extends extreme constraints on the lives of Afghans imposed by the Taliban, together with charged gown codes, notably ordering ladies to hide their our bodies and faces in public. The decree additionally units that the voices of girls should not be attended in public, which successfully denies Afghan ladies their basic proper to freedom of expression.
How Does the EU View the Taliban’s New “Virtue and Vice” Law in Afghanistan?
The decree moreover extends the facility of the so-called Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice past an advisory perform as it’s now being given a exact mandate to implement the decree. This, along with the situations imposed, punishable beneath Taliban legislation, violates authorized duties and Treaties to which Afghanistan is a State Party, together with by damaging Afghan folks’s proper to due course of.
Why Is the EU Calling the Taliban’s New Regulations a Violation of Human Rights?
According to an EU assertion, this newest choice is one other heavy blow sabotaging the rights of Afghan ladies and women, which we can’t tolerate. “We urge the Taliban to place an finish to those systematic and systemic abuses in opposition to Afghan ladies and women, which can quantity to gender persecution, which is against the law in opposition to humanity beneath the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, to which Afghanistan is a State Party.” assertion reads.
The decree additionally makes yet one more self-imposed impediment to normalised connections and recognition by the worldwide group, which the Taliban publicly want. Such doable recognition, as expressed within the UN’s impartial evaluation, of which the UNSC Resolution 2721 (2023) took optimistic observe, would require the Taliban to totally admire each their obligations in direction of the residents of Afghanistan and Afghanistan’s worldwide commitments.
The EU persists in standing by the ladies and women of Afghanistan and by all these in Afghanistan intimidated by the Taliban.
