Statement of the Movement of Afghanistan Women in Exile on the Occasion of the Fourth Anniversary of the Collapse of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban's Return to Power

Statement of the Movement of Afghanistan Women in Exile on the Occasion of the Fourth Anniversary of the Collapse of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban's Return to Power

Afghanistan has plunged into the darkness of ignorance and regression—a darkness marked by the closure of schools and universities to girls, the exclusion of women from work and public life, intensified repression of ethnic and religious minorities, and widespread violations of human rights in Afghanistan. We stand here to declare that the women and people of Afghanistan will never surrender to discrimination and oppression, and that the international community must not ignore this catastrophe. We strongly condemn the Taliban's regressive regime for its misogynistic policies, systematic human rights violations, and the exclusion of women from the country's social and political life.

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