NEW YORK – The United Nations has strongly condemned the Afghan Taliban’s recent “morality law” which further erodes the rights of women and girls in that country and called for its reversal, said the Voice of America.
“On top of the existing edicts, this new directive confirms and extends wide-ranging and far-reaching restrictions on personal conduct and provides inspectors with broad powers of enforcement, thus deepening the already unacceptable restrictions on the enjoyment by all Afghans of human rights and fundamental freedoms,” said Japan’s UN ambassador, Yamazaki Kazuyuki.
“Day by day, Afghan women and girls lose their opportunities and hope for their future,” he added. “This is unacceptable.”
Envoys from Ecuador, France, Guyana, Malta, Mozambique, Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States joined him as he read the statement before reporters.
