Women's Yell Movement: Granting Afghanistan's UN Seat to the Taliban Legitimizes Oppression and Violates Women's Rights

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The Women's Yell Movement of Afghanistan has expressed concern over the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)'s consultations regarding the potential handover of Afghanistan's permanent UN seat to the Taliban. The movement described this as a "misogynistic and human rights-violating" act, warning that such a decision would mean legitimizing a repressive regime that is an open enemy of fundamental freedoms in Afghanistan.

In a statement released by the movement, it emphasized that granting Afghanistan's UN seat to the Taliban is not only a betrayal of the blood of thousands of Afghan men and women who sacrificed their lives for rights, justice, and freedom but also a "blatant disregard for the UN's principles and commitments to human rights and women's rights."

The Women's Yell Movement asserted that the Taliban, through systematic oppression and the removal of women's and girls' rights, do not represent the people of Afghanistan in any legitimate or popular way. Their access to Afghanistan's UN seat would be an attempt to normalize a regime that violates human rights.

The movement warned that granting Afghanistan's seat to the Taliban would encourage the repetition of crimes, oppression, and violations of freedoms in other parts of the world. The statement declared, "The United Nations should not become a platform for legitimizing human rights violators."

The Women's Yell Movement called on human rights, feminist, and democratic organizations worldwide to stand against this possible decision.

Since coming to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban have issued more than 80 decrees that have stripped women and girls of all their rights. These restrictions have led to the exclusion of women from public life and forced them into domestic confinement.

Furthermore, the United Nations has recently launched consultations under the name "Mosaic Initiative" for Afghanistan's political future. This initiative, led by UNAMA, aims to create an inclusive framework for dialogue with all stakeholders. However, many women's rights activists view this plan as an attempt to legitimize and normalize global relations with the Taliban.