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UN report: Feminine Afghan UN staff harassed, detained Lalrp

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ISLAMABAD — Some Afghan girls employed by the United Nations have been detained, harassed and had restrictions positioned on their actions since being banned by the Taliban from working for the world physique, the U.N. stated Tuesday.

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers knowledgeable the United Nations early final month that Afghan girls employed with the U.N. mission might now not report for work.

“That is the latest in a collection of discriminatory – and illegal – measures applied by the de facto authorities with the aim of severely proscribing girls and ladies’ participation in most areas of public and every day life in Afghanistan,” the U.N. stated in a report on the human rights state of affairs within the south Asian nation.

Taliban authorities continued to crack down on dissenting voices this 12 months, specifically those that converse out on points associated to the rights of ladies and ladies, the report stated.

The U.N. report cited the March arrest of 4 girls who have been launched the next day throughout a protest demanding entry to training and work within the capital of Kabul and the arrest of Matiullah Wesa, head of PenPath, a civil society group campaigning for the reopening of women’ faculties.

It additionally pointed to the arrest of a girls’s rights activist Parisa Mobariz and her brother in February within the northern Takhar province.

A number of different civil society activists have been launched — reportedly with out being charged — following prolonged durations of arbitrary detention by the Taliban Intelligence service, the report stated.

The measures can have disastrous results on Afghanistan’s prospects for prosperity, stability and peace, the United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan, UNAMA stated within the report.

“UNAMA is worried by rising restrictions on civic area throughout Afghanistan,” stated Fiona Frazer, the company’s human rights chief.

The Taliban beforehand banned ladies from going to highschool past the sixth grade and blocked girls from most public life and work. In December, they banned Afghan girls from working at native and non-governmental organizations — a measure that on the time didn’t lengthen to U.N. workplaces.

The report additionally pointed to ongoing extrajudicial killings of people affiliated with the previous authorities. On March 5 in southern Kandahar, Taliban forces arrested a former police officer from his house, then shot and killed him, in keeping with the report. Throughout the identical month in northern Balkh, a former navy official was killed by unknown armed males in his home, it stated.

“Arbitrary arrests and detention of former authorities officers and Afghanistan Nationwide Safety and Protection Power members additionally occurred all through February, March and April,” added the report.

In a separate report launched Monday, the U.N. strongly criticized the Taliban for finishing up public executions, lashings and stonings since seizing energy in Afghanistan, and known as on the nation’s rulers to halt such practices.

Prior to now six months alone, 274 males, 58 girls and two boys have been publicly flogged in Afghanistan, stated the report.

The Taliban overseas ministry stated in response that Afghanistan’s legal guidelines are decided in accordance with Islamic guidelines and pointers, and that an amazing majority of Afghans comply with these guidelines.

The Taliban started finishing up such punishments shortly after coming to energy virtually two years in the past, regardless of preliminary guarantees of a extra reasonable rule than throughout their earlier stint in energy within the Nineteen Nineties.

Beneath the primary Taliban regime from 1996 to 2001, public corporal punishment and executions have been carried out by officers in opposition to people convicted of crimes, typically in giant venues akin to sports activities stadiums and at city intersections.