BRUSSELS —
The
EU on Sunday said it was “particularly concerned” about worsening conditions
for women and girls in Afghanistan after the country’s ruling Taliban violently
broke up a women’s rally.
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Taliban fighters
on Saturday fired in the air and beat up protesters taking part in a women’s
“bread, work and freedom” march in
Kabul. Some women were chased into nearby
shops and hit with rifle butts.
The violence
underscored the Taliban’s increasing restrictions, especially on women, since
they seized back control of Afghanistan a year ago, on August 15, 2021.
“The EU is
particularly concerned by the fate of
Afghan women and girls who have seen
their freedoms, rights and access to basic services such as education being
systematically denied,” the office of EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell
said in a statement.
“The EU reiterates
that Afghanistan must adhere to the international treaties to which it is a
state party, including by upholding and protecting economic, social, cultural,
civil and political rights, and allow for full, equal and meaningful
representation and participation of all Afghans in the governing of the
country.”
It also stressed
that “Afghanistan must also not pose a security threat to any country” per
UN Security Council resolutions.
The Taliban have
claimed having had no knowledge about the presence of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman
Al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan, after the US announced August 2 it had killed him
in Kabul with a drone strike.
The EU statement
noted that the bloc’s supply of basic humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan’s
people was contingent on “a stable, peaceful and prosperous” country and the
Taliban upholding human rights principles, “in particular the rights of women
and girls, children, and minorities”.
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