Four years after Taliban fighters took over the Kabul capital on August 15, 2021, gender equality agency United Nations warns that the situation for women and girls in Afghanistan is more and more untenable.

And without urgent action, this untenable reality will become standardized and women and girls will be fully excluded.

“” The Taliban is closer than ever to achieve their vision of a society that completely erases women in public life“Said UN women in a press release Monday.

A company that is against them

The edicts that the Taliban have adopted restricting the rights of women and girls interact together to create an essential cycle that relegates women to private spaces and increases their vulnerability.

In most cases, including for humanitarian workers, women are not allowed to move freely in public without being accompanied by a mahramOr a male tutor. The Taliban also banned women and girls in secondary and higher education.

Together, these two edicts have deep ramifications at all levels of society. From now on, not only is it functionally impossible for women to receive educational diplomas, but it is also unduly difficult for them to obtain a job and to conclude training programs.

Therefore, More than 78% of Afghan women are not in education, employment or training.

This means that almost half of the workforce does not contribute to the economy in a measurable manner, a huge problem for a country whose economy has been devastated by sanctions and climatic shocks.

An unhealthy cycle

But it is not only the suffering economy. In some cases, these edicts can literally be a question of life or death.

“The results are devastating. Women live a shorter and less healthy life“Said the United Nations Agency.

Take health care for example. If women are not allowed to enter higher education, they cannot become doctors. And if women are prohibited from receiving treatments from male doctors – that they are in certain regions – they cannot expect to live a healthy life.

UN women believe that obstacles to the reception of health care for women in Afghanistan will increase maternal mortality by 50% by 2026.

Children’s marriage also becomes more common and women are increasingly subject to violence, inside and outside their homes.

Solidarity in Afghanistan

It is not only in public that women ‘voices are excluded – 62% of women believe that they cannot even influence decisions at home.

UN women point out that despite the hopeful hope, Afghan women remain resilient. They continue to seek moments of solidarity and to hope for a different future.

A woman whose basic leadership organization has lost all of its funding in 2022 continuous Work to support women in smaller ways.

“I will continue to stay strong as a woman, supporting other Afghan women. I go to remote areas and collect [women’s] Stories, listen to their problems and that gives them hope. I do my best and it also gives me hope“She said.

A dangerous precedent

In total, since 2021, nearly 100 edicts that restrict how women and girls move in society have been instituted and applied. In four years, not a single one has been overthrown.

Susan Ferguson, UN women representative In Afghanistan, said that this lack of progress must be understood beyond the Afghan context.

“It is not only a question of rights – and the future – of Afghan women and girls. This is what we represent a global community, “said Ferguson.

“” If we allow Afghan women and girls to be reduced to silence, we send a message that the rights of women and girls everywhere are disposable. And it is an extremely dangerous precedent. »»

The disorders began on July 12 when mutual abductions turned into armed conflict between the groups of Druze and the Bedouin tribes, attracting the Syrian security forces.

Violence has invaded a spiral, with reports of extrajudicial execution, desecration of corpses and looting. Images have largely circulated on the social media fueled sectarian tensions and disinformation.

Nearly 200,000 displaced

In the presidential press release published on Sunday, the ambassadors said that they were “deeply concerned” by recent fights, which included “mass killings” and led to the internal displacement of some 192,000 people.

The Council “firmly condemns the violence perpetrated against civilians … and calls on all the parties to respect the cease-fire agreement and to ensure the protection of the civilian population”.

The organization of 15 members recalled to all parties of their obligations under human rights and international humanitarian law, highlighting in particular the duty to “respect and protect” all members of medical and humanitarian staff.

The members of the Council urged all the parties to allow “complete, safe, rapid and unhindered humanitarian access to communities affected in the region strongly of Sweida and through Syria, in accordance with the principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence.

They also underlined the need to ensure the human treatment of all the fighters, including those who went, are injured, detained or laid their arms.

Protection for all

The declaration called on the Syrian interim authorities to protect all Syrians “regardless of ethnicity or religion” and warned that “there can be no significant recovery in Syria without real security and protection for all Syrians”.

The Council welcomed the condemnation by the provisional authorities of violence and their commitment to investigate those responsible, but urged them to guarantee “credible, rapid, transparent, impartial and complete surveys … in accordance with international standards”.

Reaffirming resolutions, including 2254 (2015), the Council reiterated its “strong commitment to sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic” and called on all states to avoid “negative or destructive interference” which could further destabilize the country.

The declaration also recalled the 1974 disengagement agreement and the mandate of the strength of the United Nations Observer of the United Nations (UNDOD) Tmonitoring and patrolling the golan contested on the Syria-Israeli border, urging all the parties to be respected by its terms to maintain calm.

Regarding the threat of terrorism, the Council cited the last report of its team for monitoring analytical support and sanctions, expressing “a great concern concerning the acute threat posed by foreign terrorist fighters” in Syria. He urged the country to make decisive measures against ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida, in accordance with relevant resolutions.

For the future, the Council has repeated its call to “an inclusive political process, led by Syrian and belonging to Syrian” based on resolution 2254, to protect the rights of all Syrians and allow them to “determine peacefully, independent and democratic their future”.

“For more than 150 days, not a single truck of UNRWA Was authorized to deliver food, medication or other essential elements to Gaza, “said the agency on Friday. »»This denial of access costs lives every day. “”

Nearly 100 died malnutrition children

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, quoted by the UN, at least 61,158 Palestinians have been killed and more than 151,000 injured since October, in the middle of the implacable Israeli bombing and ground operations.

UNRWA said nearly 350 of its own employees have been one of the dead since Israel’s military operation in Gaza began following the terrorist attacks led by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

Many civilians were killed during the shelter in schools or tents, or during the queue for food.

Food insecurity is now acute. The United Nations shows that 193 people – including 96 children – have died of malnutrition since the beginning of August, July, the highest monthly rate of acute malnutrition recorded in children under the age of five.

Output price

The prices of wheat flour have climbed up to 15,000% compared to pre-war levels. “Supported and large -scale deliveries are the only way to stabilize food supplies and prices,” said UNRWA.

Health services are close to collapse. More than half of the essential medical supplies are already out of stock and hospitals have been forced to ration the fuel for generators. UNRWA teams have nevertheless achieved more than 1.5 million health consultations since March, but “without replenishment, our ability to save lives decreases,” warned the agency.

Large displacement scale

The trip is on a large scale: 1.9 million people – around 90% of the Gaza population – were forced from their home, many on several occasions. Nearly 100,000 are piled up in more than 60 shelters led by a UNRWA.

In northern West Bank occupied by Israeli, around 30,000 people from NUR Shams refugee camps, Tulkarm and Jenin remain unable to return home due to the military operation of the Israel “iron wall”, in progress since January.

The agency has urged immediate and unhindered humanitarian access. “” We need the world to act – to open up crossings, stop suffering and maintain the most fundamental principles of humanity“He said.

The UN Security advice should meet in New York in emergency session on Sunday morning, the local time to discuss the approval by the Israeli cabinet of a military control of Gaza City which houses around a million Palestinians.