»Die Taliban führen einen Krieg gegen afghanische Frauen und Mädchen, der wahrscheinlich ein Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit ist«

After the Taliban seized control of Kabul in August 2021, the human rights situation of women and girls in Afghanistan deteriorated severely, despite the Taliban’s initial promise to respect women’s and girls’ rights. The Taliban have been increasingly introducing new restrictions with the apparent aim of completely erasing women’s and girls’ presence from public arenas. Taliban policies have been further oppressing women and girls in almost all aspects of their lives. Any meaningful form of public or political participation by women and girls is now prohibited. Women are prevented from moving freely and dressing as they choose; they are banned from education beyond primary school; they are excluded from a wide range of professions, including from working with NGOs and the UN office in Afghanistan, and they are not granted political appointments or public positions.

The discriminatory restrictions the Taliban have imposed on women and girls violate human rights guarantees contained in numerous international treaties to which Afghanistan is a party, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

At the same time, resistance against these policies has been met with intimidation, persecution and violence by the Taliban de facto authorities. Women participating in protests have been subjected to arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. The protections available for women and girls have been essentially removed by the Taliban’s decision to dissolve the institutional framework of support for survivors of gender-based violence that was previously in place.

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