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Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a Saudi humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 25, 2022. The Afghan Taliban leadership has ordered all Afghan women to wear the all-covering burqa in public. Saturday’s decree evoked similar restrictions on women during the previous hardline Taliban rule between 1996 and 2001.Photo: AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi

US envoy asks the Islamic world to speak out for Afghan women’s rights.

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JEDDAH — The US Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls and Human Rights, Rina Amiri, called on Muslim-majority countries to speak out about women’s rights and human rights in Afghanistan. According to him, it is important for Saudi Arabia to be the leading voice in countering the Taliban narrative.

Amiri assessed that the Kingdom is a country that is of concern to the Muslim world as a whole. She herself is a Muslim and understands that in her history Islam was the first religion to give women rights.

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“To that end, I look to Muslim countries to engage with the Taliban, to challenge that narrative, to engage Afghans, and to say no,” he said, as reported by the Saudi Gazette, Friday (26/8/2022).

Islam, said Amiri, is a religion that is very much in harmony with human rights and women’s rights. He said institutions such as the GCC and the OIC can show Afghans that they are not being left behind.

“And that their brothers in the Muslim world support them and defend their rights within the framework of Islam,” he said.

Amiri also praised Saudi Arabia’s contribution of US$30 million to the Afghan Humanitarian Trust Fund that the OIC and the Islamic Development Bank had set up.

“We are very grateful for all the projects we have today. This is work that we have to do together. We must provide support to the Afghan population in terms of meeting basic needs,” he said.

A year after the takeover of the Taliban, he described the human rights situation in Afghanistan as a major tragedy. The Taliban took over and the population was stripped of every right. “This is really a struggle because there is a sense of frustration over what is happening to 40 million Afghans and a desire to help them all at the same time because of the actions taken by the Taliban themselves,” he added.

Since March 23, there have been at least 16 decrees limiting the rights of women and girls, ranging from preventing them from working in many sectors, effectively barring them from secondary education, to introducing increasingly regressive measures. This includes dressing and restraining them at almost all levels, even the right to mobility.

“Women feel that they have been put in prison. They have lost hope that they can be given the right to their own future and their capacity to help their own country,” Amiri said.

source https://www.republika.co.id/berita/rh82td313/dunia-islam-diminta-suarakan-hak-perempuan-afghanistan