The United Nations Security Council has called for the repeal of the decree on “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” by the interim government of Afghanistan, as well as the order to close health institutes to girls.
In a statement issued today (Saturday, December 28), the organization urged the current government to fully respect the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan.
The statement emphasized that the current government should not provide shelter to terrorist groups on Afghan soil and should combat them.
These decisions were made during a Security Council meeting on Afghanistan held on December 12.
The UN Security Council stressed: “Members of this council express concern over the dire economic situation and obstacles to humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan and call for the removal of these barriers.”
The council also demanded the release of the assets of Afghanistan’s central bank.
Additionally, the UN Security Council highlighted in part of its statement that drug cultivation in Afghanistan has provided financial support to terrorist groups that threaten global and regional security, and this issue must be addressed as soon as possible.
Council members emphasized the effective role of the United Nations in ensuring peace and stability in Afghanistan and called for engagement with the current government through the Doha process.
This comes at a time when the current government has consistently dismissed the international community’s concerns regarding these issues as baseless.
It should be noted that during more than three years of their rule, the current government has prohibited girls above sixth grade from education, closed university doors to women and girls, barred women from working in most government offices and all foreign institutions, restricted women’s access to recreational parks, and recently denied women and girls education in medical institutes as well.
