Taliban Must End Campaign Against Women-Un
Officials from the U.N. an aid organization have been meeting with the Taliban in Afghanistan amid intensified calls for the Islamist rulers to end a dangerous campaign to exclude women from public life.
The meetings come as Melissa Fleming, the U.N. chief communicator, said in recent comments that the systematic campaign by the country’s de facto authorities to gradually erase women from public life and deny their contribution is an extraordinary act of self-harm.
Fleming’s remarks came as Markus Potzel, the U.N. envoy to Afghanistan, held back-to-back meetings with senior Taliban ministers in the capital, Kabul.
He urged them to lift bans on women’s education and work for aid groups, citing the country’s dire humanitarian conditions.
