The United Nations Safety Council unanimously adopted at this time a decision drafted by the United Arab Emirates and Japan, of their capacities as co-penholders on the Afghanistan file, that condemns the Taliban’s determination banning Afghan ladies from working for the UN in Afghanistan.
The decision was co-sponsored by greater than 90 UN member states, together with, for the primary time, greater than 28 Member States of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
“By adopting this decision, the UN Safety Council is sending an unequivocal message of condemnation and a transparent name for the swift reversal, not solely of this newest ban, however of others limiting the rights of girls and ladies in Afghanistan,” mentioned Ambassador Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, UAE’s Everlasting Consultant to the United Nations in New York. “Stability, financial restoration, and political reconciliation will not be potential in Afghanistan with out the inclusion of Afghan ladies and ladies.”
The decision requires the complete, equal, significant, and secure participation of girls and ladies in Afghanistan; stresses the pressing must proceed addressing the dire financial and humanitarian state of affairs in Afghanistan; and recognises the necessity to use property belonging to Afghanistan’s Central Financial institution for the Afghan individuals’s profit.
The decision additionally reaffirms the indispensable position of girls in Afghan society and expresses deep concern over the rising erosion of respect for the human rights and elementary freedoms of girls in Afghanistan.
The total textual content of the decision is out there right here:
https://uaeun.org/assertion/uae-unsc-eovafg-27apr/
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