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Protesting Women: Roza Otunbayeva Whitewashes the Taliban

June 23, 2024

Zan News

Zan News: A group of women protestors have issued a statement harshly condemning the support of Roza Otunbayeva, the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Afghanistan, for the non-participation of women in the third Doha meeting, accusing her of whitewashing the Taliban.

In the statement released on Sunday (June 23), these women accused Otunbayeva of normalizing the Taliban's actions in Afghanistan and called her statements a "betrayal" of Afghanistan women and girls.

It is worth noting that Otunbayeva said on Friday (June 21) at a UN Security Council meeting that the demands of Afghan women would be raised by the special representatives of 22 countries for Afghanistan with the Taliban at the third Doha meeting, despite their absence.

The protesting women emphasized that holding the third Doha meeting without the presence of their representatives is unacceptable, given the widespread human rights abuses against women and girls by the Taliban.

This comes as one of the conditions for the Taliban's participation in the third Doha meeting is the non-participation of representatives of Afghanistan women protesters.

The absence of Afghanistan women from this meeting has been met with strong criticism from human rights organizations.

Agnès Callamard, Secretary-General of Amnesty International, has also said that the failure to adequately address the human rights crisis in Afghanistan and the lack of participation of women human rights defenders and other civil society stakeholders from Afghanistan will undermine the credibility of this meeting.

Earlier, Naseer Ahmad Faiq, Acting Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations, had called the exclusion of women from the Doha meeting agenda "disappointing."

The third Doha meeting with the participation of the Taliban is scheduled to take place in Doha, Qatar, later this month.

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