Heather Barr, head of the Women’s Department of Human Rights Watch in Afghanistan, said that the Human Rights Council’s report on Afghanistani women is not operational, but it provides the basis for a human rights discourse.
She stated that this report may lack practical and executive aspects, but it can be the foundation of a new trend in the field of human rights and women’s rights.
Ms. Heather Barr added that Afghanistani women and girls have been deprived of all social, cultural, political, and economic privileges during the last two years, and this can have dangerous consequences.
This response followed the publication of a report by Richard Bennett and the Working Group on Discrimination Against Afghanistani Women and Girls in which it was said that the Taliban had issued more than 50 restrictive decrees against Afghanistani women since seizing power.
Arash Mehrban
