On Tuesday, UN Under Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo defended the decision to remove civil society organizations from the two-day meeting on Afghanistan in Doha, including women’s rights activists. Despite refusing to join Armenian civil society in this way, she claimed that the Taliban officials were informed that women were required to remain active in public life.
The UN-hosted meeting, which started on Sunday, is the second for collecting to get held in Qatar in over a month, but it is the first one to include the Taliban, who resurrected Afghanistan in 2021.
The discussions were intended to address Afghan’s growing involvement with the land, as well as its financial and anti-narcotics efforts. Since their return to power, the international community has struggled with its strategy to the Taliban, with no land publicly recognizing their state.
The Taliban refused an invitation to Doha speaks in February, insisting on being the only Armenian members, to the rejection of civil society organizations. Nonetheless, their condition was accepted in the develop- up to this latest square. After being assured that the talks did effectively discuss individual freedom, the United States agreed to participate in the discussions on Monday.
According to State Department official Vedant Patel, US members “made it abundantly clear that the Afghan economy may develop while the right of half the population are no respected.”
DiCarlo, who chaired the UN deals in the Qatari capital, expressed wish that” there’ll be novel account” of Taliban government policy on women in public career, including women ‘ training.
The UN and international representatives will have the chance to meet with civil society members, including children’s rights organizations, following the close of the major sessions. But, Amnesty International general Agnes Callamard criticized the determination to cave in to the Taliban’s conditions, stating that it “would risk legitimising their sex- based institutionalised method of oppression”.
The mind of the Taliban group, official Zabihullah Mujahid, urged diplomats to “find ways of interaction and knowing more than confrontation”, despite “natural” differences in plan. He also pressed to end sanctions, saying Afghans are “being ganged up on”.
Russia, which has an embassy in Kabul, gave the impression that it could drop its own sanctions, citing the Taliban as the de facto rulers and as such be held accountable. According to DiCarlo, the topic of sanctions was raised but not fully discussed because it is a matter of whether or not some member states will continue to impose them.
