Powerful Women of Afghanistan Movement Calls August 15 “Day of Resistance and Justice”

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On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Taliban’s takeover, the Powerful Women of Afghanistan Movement, condemning the group’s four years in power, has said that this day is recorded in the collective memory of the Afghan people as a “dark and painful day,” and that since then, the country has fallen into darkness, repression, discrimination, and crisis.

The movement emphasized that the Taliban, through force and without any political or popular legitimacy, have plunged Afghanistan into one of the darkest periods in its history, a period in which women and girls have been systematically deprived of basic rights, the media has been censored, civil activists have been silenced or exiled, minorities have been subjected to discrimination and abuse, and poverty and economic crisis have gripped the majority of the population.

The Powerful Women of Afghanistan Movement stated that August 15 is a “Day of Resistance and Justice,” not a day of forgetting, and that the Taliban government is “illegitimate, misogynistic, and an open violator of human rights.” The movement has called on the international community to refrain from recognizing the Taliban and to prioritize urgent support for women, human rights defenders, journalists, and vulnerable minorities.