KABUL: The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has denied the Human Rights Watch report (HRW) which said that the country’s fall into the new regime has accelerated the crisis of human rights and humanitarian disasters.
In a statement on Friday, the Deputy Spokesman for Taliban Bilal Karimi accused that the human rights situation had become better than in the previous years in the country, Tolo News reported.
“We deny it because since the Islamic Emirates swept power, women’s rights have been maintained.
These reports are issued based on false information,” Karimi added.
HRW in the 1922 world report released on Thursday said political changes in Afghanistan on August 15, 2021 accelerated the crisis of human rights and humanitarian disasters in Afghanistan.
The next report said that the two most important achievements of the progress of the post-2001 era in the rights of women and free press rolled back after the Taliban takeover.
HRW also raises concerns over what is called further restrictions on women.
“This includes severe steps to restrict access to work and education and limit the right to peace assembly,” report the report.
Reacting to the report, Naveeda Khurasani, a women’s rights activist, said: “The Islamic Emirates have banned a lot of women workers to work.
So, now what should be done by breadwinners for breadwinners?” The narrowing of space for media and journalists to operate is another point highlighted by HRW as a result of political change, saying it has caused self sensor and closing many media outlets in this country.
“Many media outlets are closed or drastically reduced their reporting, partly because many journalists have escaped from the country,” report the report.
The report also stated that the fall of the former government and the next political development worsened the humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan, because the country’s central bank’s assets were frozen abroad, interrupted development assistance and the banking system was disrupted.
“Posting junior work must be formed.
There must be investment in the banking system to fight the economic situation in the country,” said Khwaja Fahim Abbas, a political analyst.
In the 753 report report, HRW reviewed human rights practices in nearly 100 countries.
The report has characterized human rights situations in Afghanistan as “crisis”.