As the Taliban reintroduce moral ministries in Afghanistan ever controlling the lives of women, women and student activists say the younger generation of women educated and workers will not accept oppression by the Islamic militant group.
Three weeks after the storming of power, the Taliban announced a provisional government that all men on Tuesday that includes the Ministry of Guidance and Call, formerly known as the Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Moral Police Punishment.
During the 1996-2001 Taliban government before, girls can not attend school and women were not allowed to work or study.
Women must cover their faces and accompanied by a male relative in public.
Those who break the rules sometimes humiliated or beaten by the Taliban moral police squads.
Because the Taliban captured the capital Kabul on Aug.
15, the young women of Afghanistan have protested in major cities, demanding their rights after the guerrillas prohibit many people from leaving the house or daughter from school or university.
“The Taliban really like flogging people …
all over their attitude towards women was almost like they were disgusted by us,” said veteran activist Mahbouba Seraj, who has formed several organizations to promote peace and women’s rights.
“But this time, it will not work,” said the 73-year-old man over the phone from Kabul.
“The young generation of Afghanistan …
they have not seen a whip Taliban.
They have no such fear.” Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that the new ministry will focus on preaching and preaching, but declined to comment on her treatment.
“(The) future will say it,” he said by telephone.
ROWS RIGHTS OF FAMOUS TALBAN had promised to protect women’s rights in accordance with Islamic law, but advocates fear in the back line after two decades in which women workers have joined the media, the judiciary, and politics.
“Recovery ministry is bound to increase concerns that much of the abuse going back a long time,” said Heather Barr, of Human Rights Watch, who has worked with women in Afghanistan for more than six years.
When the new government was announced, Afghan women protested in the streets of Kabul but had to take cover after Taliban gunmen turn on the air to disperse hundreds of demonstrators.
Video on social media – that can not be verified – showed soldiers taliban beat Burqa clad woman with a cane.
“We are not a herd of animals or a group of illiterates who need a man with a stick to keep and guide us,” said the 23-year student Sharifa Qayumi, who attended the protest in Kabul.
“We are all educated (and) from a dignified family …
They beat some of our friends with sticks and threaten them with firing the air, but we will not give up on our rights.” There are no women in the government, the Taliban have not named any woman in their new government and also has eliminated the Ministry of Women’s Affairs – which was created in 2001 after the United States toppled the rebels.
“It’s very disappointing,” said Hasina Safi on Twitter.
He led the Ministry of Women’s Affairs from May 2020 until last month when he fled from the country.
The Ministry has pioneered a policy that aims to curb the virginity test, prohibits child marriage and increase the presence of women in public life over the last two decades.
Prior to the takeover of the Taliban, women hold nearly 30% of seats in the country’s parliament.
At least three women heads of federal ministries, including the interior and finance, and dozens of others are the representatives, advisers and bureaucrats, government data showed earlier.
World powers have told the Taliban Key to Peace and Development is an inclusive government that will support promises that promise to uphold human rights, after the previous rule was marked by bloody vendettas and the oppression of women.
Taliban spokesman Shaheen said that the current government is not final and its leaders “very clear that they want women to work in government”.
“In the future, when things settle down, there will be the possibility of having women in ministerial positions as well,” he said, raising the prospect of “the Ministry of Women”.
While the campaign Seraj said he doubted the Taliban have changed since the previous administration, he stressed that the rebels are now facing “a new generation of women”.
“They are educated, they are all alive and growing in another era.
They will not sit still.”
Afghan young woman challenged because the Taliban brought back moral police
