Heather Bar: Afghanistan has become a prison for women and girls
The head of the women’s section of Human Rights Watch says Afghanistan has become a prison for women and girls in the country.
In an interview with France 24, Heidar Barr, head of the women’s section at Human Rights Watch, said the Taliban had turned the country into a prison for women and girls by imposing restrictions on them.
Emphasizing that Afghanistan is returning to the dark days before 2001, he added that Western powers would have been naive to think that this would not have happened.
Ms. Barr also expressed concern that the Taliban had taken away their right to work, education, freedom of expression and the most basic rights of women, saying that the group had made it mandatory for women and girls to cover their faces in public and ordered female TV presenters to Cover their faces during the program.
The head of the women’s section of Human Rights Watch called on France, Canada, Germany, Mexico, Norway and Sweden, which she said have a foreign policy approach to women, to take the lead in dealing with the worst crisis for women in the world.
He stressed that the new generation of Afghans, especially girls who have grown up after 2001, do not accept these conditions and restrictions and are protesting for their rights.
