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  1. “What I can clearly see is that the Taliban have already done permanent harm to the women and girls of Afghanistan, and every day that the Security Council fails to take action, that harm deepens. People in Afghanistan, especially women, are watching this debate, as are women in other conflict zones around the world. If the Council fails to act in Afghanistan, women in Ethiopia, Myanmar, the Sudan and Yemen will know that, in the hands of the Security Council, women and peace and security is nothing more than an empty promise.”

    2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158 (2022) · source

  2. “The Council should call on all senior United Nations leaders, in particular the Secretary-General and the Head of UNAMA, to press the Taliban at every opportunity to respect the rights of all women, girls and other marginalized groups. It should hold UNAMA accountable for women’s rights throughout its work. The Council should ensure the full, equal and meaningful participation of Afghan women civil society in any decision-making regarding the future of Afghanistan, including its own decisions. It should support the establishment of an additional United Nations mechanism to provide accountability for human rights violations. As a journalist, it is my job to bear witness.”

    2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158 (2022) · source

  3. “For the sake of all my sisters in Afghanistan, I urge the Council to take the following steps. The Security Council should call on the Taliban to respect the human rights of all Afghans, including women, girls, LGBT people and all ethnic and religious groups; end all violations of women’s rights; and stop the targeting and abuse of protesters, human rights defenders, journalists and their families. The Council should not grant the Taliban formal recognition or renew any exemptions to the existing travel bans on Taliban leaders, and should consider adding additional individuals responsible for violations to the United Nations sanctions list.”

    2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158 (2022) · source

  4. “However, such efforts have thus far failed to pressure the Taliban to change course. On the contrary, the Security Council’s renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in March was followed by the Taliban’s roll-out of some of their most extreme policies, such as extending the ban on girls’ secondary education and enforcing full-face coverings and male chaperones for women. Both the United Nations and the Security Council appear at a loss about what to do next. When it comes to women and peace and security, there is a major gap at the United Nations between words and action. The Taliban have no respect for words. The Security Council has before it overwhelming evidence that the Taliban are terrorizing women, girls and marginalized groups.”

    2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158 (2022) · source

  5. “The Taliban’s assault on human rights, combined with their failure to provide security and necessary services and their extremist interpretation of Islam, have jeopardized the rights and representation of not only Afghanistan’s Shia Muslims, but also Sufis, Ahmadis, Hindus and Sikhs. LGBT people in Afghanistan are being attacked, killed, sexually assaulted and threatened by members of the Taliban because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, adding a level of terror to what was already a dangerous existence. Since the takeover last August, the Security Council has met 11 times on Afghanistan, issued two press statements (SC/14604 and SC/14902) and adopted three resolutions (resolutions 2593 (2021), 2615 (2021) and 2626 (2022)) reaffirming the importance of women’s rights.”

    2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158 (2022) · source

  6. “The Taliban are also targeting marginalized communities, such as ethnic and religious groups and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, putting some women at even greater risk. The Hazaras have faced discrimination and abuse for more than a century. Today they are under systematic attack, and experts are warning of the risk of genocide. Since the Taliban took over, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant-Khorasan has been responsible for killing and injuring at least 879 Hazaras. Members of the Hazara community have mobilized in countries around the world to demand urgent action. In addition, disturbing reports of war crimes continue to emerge from Panjshir, Balkhab and wherever else the Taliban face armed resistance.”

    2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158 (2022) · source

  7. “Women took to the streets as recently as this week, chanting “Bread, work, freedom” — a call that encapsulates our key demands. We need bread, but survival alone is not enough. We demand independence and the right to work, participate fully and equally in society and take control of our own lives. We insist on freedom, which is the non-negotiable lifeblood and right of every person, as decreed by the United Nations and its Member States. The Taliban view women protesters as the enemy because they are exposing the scale of the Taliban’s abuse of the Afghan people. Afghan women have become the main obstacle to what the Taliban crave the most: recognition by the international community.”

    2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158 (2022) · source

  8. “In the past year, we witnessed violent crackdowns on anyone protesting against their misogynist policies. We interviewed people involved in the September 2021 anti-Taliban protests in Mazar-e-Sharif. They shared shocking accounts of how the Taliban had beaten, abducted, tortured and imprisoned women for their role in peaceful protests. Some activists, such as Frozan Safi, were even killed. Another woman, who spent 11 days in Taliban custody for protesting, told us that she witnessed Taliban members slapping children, putting guns to their heads in order to pressure their mothers and forcing women to confess at gunpoint. Why are the Taliban going to such lengths to silence women? It is because, to date, Afghan women have mobilized the most consistent and peaceful opposition to Taliban policies.”

    2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158 (2022) · source

  9. “The Taliban are arresting and imprisoning the male relatives of women and girls for failing to comply with their policies. Forced and child marriages are on the rise. One shocking case involved Elaha Dilawarzai, an Afghan medical student, who was raped, tortured and forced into marriage by a Taliban member. Her current whereabouts are unknown. The only reason that we know about Elaha’s case is because she shared a video. The truth is that we do not know, and will probably never know, the full extent of the violations taking place because United Nations monitoring is thin on the ground and the Afghan media, especially women journalists, have been crushed by the Taliban. Most of the international media have left, and the Taliban have terrorized into silence anyone who dares to oppose them. Women, of course, are the Taliban’s main target.”

    2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158 (2022) · source

  10. “Those Hazara girls were there to take entrance examinations to go to college and become journalists, doctors or engineers. They dreamed of lives that today seem more out of reach than ever before. That attack is a potent symbol of the assault on the rights of women, girls, the Hazaras and all other marginalized groups under Taliban rule, which is the focus of my statement today. Experts are warning the international community that my country has descended into authoritarianism and gender apartheid. Today an estimated 20 million women and girls who grew up in Afghanistan going to school and to work and who grew up being able to go where they liked and to speak their minds are under the Taliban, deprived of those fundamental human rights because of their gender.”

    2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158 (2022) · source

  11. “Ms. Nader: My name is Zahra Nader. I am Editor-in-Chief of Zan Times, a woman-led newsroom that covers human rights violations in Afghanistan. It is both an honour and a responsibility to discuss the devastating situation of Afghan women and girls with the Security Council today. I am here because I can be. However, it is important that the Council continue to hear directly from diverse Afghan women, including those still living in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, who risk their lives on a daily basis to speak truth to power. Just weeks ago, the suicide bombing of the Kaaj education centre killed at least 55 people, including 51 Hazara girls and women, and injured at least another 124. As a Hazara woman myself, what makes that incident especially painful is that it was an attack both on my community and on girls’ education.”

    2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158 (2022) · source