By:Rukhshana Media
The Taliban have imposed severe restrictions on women including banning women’s sports, abolishing women’s affairs ministry, and banning women from most paid jobs in the past seven months, Human Rights Watch said in a statement released on the occasion of International Women’s Day.
“The rapid and widespread decline of women’s rights in Afghanistan is a warning to women around the world,” the statement added. “We should all be in solidarity with Afghan women; their fight is a fight for women’s rights everywhere.”
Afghan women’s rights activists warned that the group would once again repress women and girls and that oppression would intensify over time, their predictions were right, the statement said.
“Afghan women have been demanding their legitimate rights,” Heather Barr, Associate Women’s Rights Director at Human Rights Watch, wrote on Twitter in response to a tweet by a Talib official about women’s right. “The Taliban’s response has been to beat, threaten, intimidate, harass, pepper spray, abduct, silence, and terrorize them.”
