{"id":6259,"date":"2022-02-03T06:48:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T02:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/?p=6259"},"modified":"2022-02-03T06:48:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T02:18:29","slug":"women-protesters-criticize-eu-over-afghan-women-representatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/en\/women-protesters-criticize-eu-over-afghan-women-representatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Women protesters criticize EU over Afghan women representatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Rukhshana Media&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an indoor gathering in Kabul on Wednesday, a group of women questioned the international community for deciding who should represent Afghan women on the international platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe want representatives who live among us, who understand the restrictions and problems we are facing,\u201d one of the protesters said in videos organizers shared with Rukhshana Media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe raised our voice [to say] we don\u2019t accept the women who [the international community] selected to represent Afghan women, as our representative,\u201d Raha*, a protester, told Rukhshana Media in a phone interview.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe [chosen representatives] cannot represent us because they live in the West, and they don\u2019t know the suffering of women who came to the street,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The criticism came on the second day of a two-day (February 1-2) event hosted by the European Parliament on the situation of Afghan women in Afghanistan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some former female government officials and former chairs of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission spoke in the European Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The women who gathered in Kabul also called on the Taliban to release the activists who were abducted in Kabul two weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is no news on our sisters who are missing, and this is the situation that forces us to resist,\u201d Raha said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, the UN raised concern over the continued disappearance of at least six people in connection with the recent women\u2019s rights protests in Kabul, calling on the Taliban to \u201ctake all possible measures to ensure their safe and immediate release, and to hold those responsible to account.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite women rights activists being abducted and disappeared, women continue to raise their voices, demanding their rights.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe, the women of Afghanistan, don\u2019t have the rights to freedom, work, education, and movement. 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