Can You Imagine Living in a Country Where Music Is a Crime
The Koran does not mention music yet the Taliban claim it is against sharia law and immoral
August is Women’s Month in South Africa where we pay tribute to the role women played, and still continue to play, against discrimination, subordination and exploitation.
But today I’m directing the spotlight at the plight of women and girls in Afghanistan who international players have forgotten — or just don’t give a damn.
At the Hearing on Women and Girls in Afghanistan at The Capitol with the House Foreign Affairs Committee on 30 July, Human Rights Watch said,
“We were especially dismayed by the decision of the United Nations to convene the third meeting of the ‘Doha process,’ a high-level meeting of representatives and special envoys on Afghanistan from 25 countries with the Taliban in June 2024, that excluded Afghan women from the meeting and did not include women’s rights on the agenda. This decision handed the Taliban an enormous victory at significant cost to women that will endure long past the meeting.”
“The UN gave in to Taliban demands that they be treated as representatives of Afghanistan who were not obliged to answer for their systematic violations of women’s and girls’ rights.”
