The United Nations will hold a meeting on Afghanistan tomorrow
Afghanistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations says the UN Security Council is scheduled to meet on Afghanistan tomorrow.
Nasir Ahmad Fayek, Afghanistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said the meeting would also discuss the targeted killing of Hazaras and civilians in Panjshir, Kapisa and Andarab provinces.
Meanwhile, Norway’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations tweeted that the UN Security Council meeting to be held tomorrow on Afghanistan would also discuss increasing restrictions on human rights and freedoms for women and girls in Afghanistan.
The United Nations is holding the summit on Afghanistan as the Taliban increase restrictions on the human rights and freedoms of women and girls.
In the most recent case, the Taliban interim government issued a decree mandating women and girls to wear the hijab or burqa in public places, stating that their parents would be punished if women or girls did not observe the hijab.
The Taliban’s decision provoked domestic and international reactions, but following the reactions, Akef Mohajer, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Promoting and Prohibiting Virtue, said in a video that wearing the burqa was not mandatory and that the Arab hijab and chador used in the country’s villages can be considered as hijab.
