Afghanistan Powerful Women’s Movement Protests to Third Doha Meeting and Global Deal with the Taliban

In this resolution, published today, Monday (June 24), the movement's members emphasize that inviting the Taliban disregards the will of the Afghan people. They describe the Taliban as "terrorists and criminals lacking any legal legitimacy, who have seized political power through military violence over the past three decades through terror and intimidation."

The members of the movement stated in the resolution: "As a result of the Taliban’s crimes, nearly 200,000 people in Afghanistan have been killed, and millions have been displaced and had their lives affected."

They stress that the Taliban is a "terrorist, ideological, and fundamentalist group" that has no connection to the social fabric or civil society demands of Afghanistan. According to the movement, any form of understanding with the Taliban under the guise of negotiation is clear engagement with "war criminals, perpetrators of crimes against humanity, agents of gender apartheid, and sworn enemies of the Afghan people and human values such as justice, dignity, and freedom." They consider it a betrayal of human values and human rights.

The Afghanistan Powerful Women’s Movement calls on the United Nations and the countries participating in the Doha meeting to redirect their dialogue from the Taliban to the Afghan people. They emphasize that the Taliban have no legitimacy and that the only way to combat insecurity in Afghanistan and the world is to destroy the Taliban and grant political power to the Afghan people.

The resolution also outlines specific demands, including criminalizing gender apartheid and recognizing it in Afghanistan, pursuing war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Taliban, preventing the Taliban's brutal repression, imposing international sanctions against the group, cutting off the Taliban's access to global humanitarian aid, returning Afghanistan’s UN representation to the Afghan people, and creating mechanisms for dialogue with the Afghan people about forming a transitional government and establishing a transitional justice process.

In conclusion, the Afghanistan Powerful Women’s Movement emphasizes that any negotiation that does not consider these fundamental demands of the Afghan people is an overt deal with terrorism.