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The Taliban has established its oppressive rule in Afghanistan since taking over in 2021. This has resulted in the violation of the fundamental rights of [the entire population of] 40 million people and has led to a humanitarian disaster. Additionally, Afghanistan is now at risk of becoming a hub for global terrorism.
In the first five months of their regime, they executed over 500 military and civilian personnel who served in the previous government, despite promising them amnesty. But the majority of the regimeâs violence is carried out against civilians.
The regime has introduced over 50 religious decrees, edicts, and administrative directives that violate womenâs rights. During the first month of their rule, the Taliban prohibited female secondary education. They also established strict dress codes and enforced gender segregation in public areas. Later, the regime deprived women of their right to travel by air or road [and] their right to earn a living.
[They prohibited women] from pursuing higher education and denied womenâs cultural and collective rights, including their freedom to visit public parks, gyms, and public baths, and closed beauty parlors and salons.
The regime dismantled the protective institutional infrastructure for girls and women. These included closing shelters and safe homes for women, decommissioning the Afghanistan Independent High Commission on Human Rights, and dissolving the Ministry of Womenâs Affairs.
Punitive measures have included imprisonment, forced disappearance, physical abuse, and even sexual violence against female activists. The regime forces male family members to impose strict restrictions against their own female family members or face punishment themselves.
There are now more than 20 terrorist entities with regional and global agendas operating within the country.
Under the Taliban rule, 87 percent of the population suffers from food insecurity, and nearly 29 million people require humanitarian assistance. By the end of 2022, over 6 million people faced famine-like conditions that demanded emergency intervention. Almost a million Afghan children suffer from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition, and over 2.3 million kids suffer from acute malnutrition. While over 82 percent of households lost wages due to the regimeâs restrictive social policies, the World Food Program reported that almost 100 percent of female-headed households in the country are food unsecured.
The regime appears to be indifferent to the situation. Rather, senior Taliban officials have normalized hunger and poverty. The acting prime minister of the regime in Kabul has left the responsibility of providing food to God. [You know, that charitable grocer with his thousands of busy delivery vans - ed.]
The global response to the current humanitarian crisis in the country has provided the Taliban with an opportunity to misuse [steal] funds and aid as an additional source of revenue for their regime.
With a media blackout imposed by the government, the world has been kept largely in the dark about the true costs of the Talibanâs actions. They have limited freedom of speech, attacked journalists, imposed censorship, forcibly disappeared reporters, restricted internet access in areas of political dissent, shut down over 300 media outlets.Thousands of journalists and media workers have lost their jobs.**
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The United Nations, famous for its fast, efficient, effective help for the persecuted and hungry, is too busy just now attending to the urgent need to condemn the free liberal democracy of Israel to pay attention to the sufferings of the people of Afghanistan. Otherwise of course it would.
American feminists are no doubt working on a statement of sympathy - their well known custom - with all the hungry, helpless, confined Afghan women.