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Yaftali

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2022-01-18
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2022-01-18
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  1. “The Council must call for an inclusive, negotiated peace process that enjoys the full, equal and meaningful participation of diverse women from across the country at all stages of planning, negotiation and implementation. I conclude my statement with the words of the women who are protesting every day in the streets of Afghanistan. “There is no peace, and there is no participation or protection for women in Afghanistan. But there is violence against women every day there. We are here. Please listen to us. We want the right to education, work and political participation and the right to be alive. Please break your silence.””

    2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source

  2. “I urge Council members, as they consider renewing its mandate in March, to ensure that UNAMA continues to monitor the human rights situation, protect and promote human rights and ensure that the people of Afghanistan are supported in community-led efforts to facilitate and coordinate humanitarian assistance, resolve conflict and build peace. There is also a need to ensure support for education as part of humanitarian efforts and to ensure that education also falls under the new UNAMA mandate. In addition, there is an urgent need to appoint a United Nations special rapporteur for Afghanistan so that she can start her work soon, but it is important that she be familiar with the context of Afghanistan and able to maintain the principle of neutrality.”

    2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source

  3. “It is time that the Security Council break its silence on the future of the 30 million citizens of Afghanistan, of which more than 15 million are women, by stating its clear expectations of the Taliban with regard to the protection of women’s rights, including the right of women’s human rights defenders to operate freely without fear of reprisal, the right to education for all women and girls and the right of all women to work and political participation, without restriction throughout the country. Any step to recognize the Taliban currently is an endorsement of the oppression of the women of Afghanistan. The role of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is more important than ever.”

    2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source

  4. “Journalists who cover those events and protests and broadcast the truth are being arrested and taken away to unknown places and, in some cases, killed. The oppression of women and civilians by the Taliban is increasing daily. There is no legal system. The mainstream media in the West has lost interest in our situation and moved on to the next news of the day. Meanwhile, Afghanistan’s women wonder what has become of years and years of promises. We are here today to discuss how to protect women’s participation and the threats that women human rights defenders and peacebuilders are facing in all conflicts. Afghanistan is an example of what can happen when the international community fails to live up to its promises. I therefore urge the Council to consider my recommendations.”

    2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source

  5. “We went from being a democracy to a country under the control of an extremist and totalitarian regime that the Security Council itself has designated as a terrorist group. Today women and girls are demonstrating in Kabul and other regions and cities of Afghanistan to regain the right to work and education in the country. They are facing violence and serious threats from the Taliban for doing so. Some women protesters have been imprisoned or have disappeared. We do not know if they are dead or alive. Thousands of women who worked with military and security forces in Afghanistan now live in fear for their lives. Seven hundred media outlets have been closed, and freedom of speech has been severely limited.”

    2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source

  6. “I asked the international community to protect our hard-won gains involving women’s participation, which were the result of international support and the product of the innumerable, untold sacrifices of Afghanistan’s women over 20 years. I told members that peace cannot come at the cost of women’s rights and that we needed the international community to uphold its responsibility to safeguard our gains. I told them that I and my sisters in other countries on the Security Council’s agenda would view their policies on Afghanistan as the true test of their commitment to upholding resolution 1325 (2000). The world did not listen. For me, the rhetoric of the women and peace and security agenda collapsed on 15 August 2021. Today I am addressing the Council as a refugee. Like so many other people of Afghanistan, I lost my country overnight.”

    2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source

  7. “One year ago, on the twentieth anniversary of resolution 1325 (2000), I addressed the Council with pride as I shared the achievements of Afghanistan’s women over the past two decades. I told Council members about the hundreds of thousands of educated women who were Ministers, diplomats, judges, attorneys, defence lawyer, athletes, artists, writers, journalists, professors, business women, pilots and activists. I told them how far we had come since the Taliban had last been in power. I told them that Afghanistan society was ready to see women lead the country into the future. However, I shared my fears then as well.”

    2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source

  8. “Ms. Yaftali: I would like to thank Norway for the opportunity to address the Security Council today at this critical moment for women in Afghanistan. I am happy to be here once again, a year after I previously addressed the Council (see S/2020/1084), although I am sad and disappointed to share the pain, inhumanity and violence that the women and the people of Afghanistan are facing today. One year ago, we thought that the peace talks with the Taliban were being monitored by the world and that, with the close collaboration with the United States, the talks would lead to the formation of an inclusive Government in which women and all other groups would be able to participate meaningfully and that the fundamental rights and freedoms of the people, including women, would be protected.”

    2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source