U.S. officials held formal direct talks with the Taliban in Qatar, this week, with the American delegation pushing Afghanistan's hardline Islamic rulers to restore basic rights for women and girls and improve the human rights situation in the country.
and to free U.S. nationals detained in the country. The Taliban asked in return for its leaders' names to be removed from sanctions lists and for access to their country's government cash reserves locked in foreign bank accounts.
Afghan burqa-clad women walk past Taliban security personnel along a street in Jalalabad on April 30, 2023.A statement issued Monday by the U.S. State Department said the delegation had"expressed deep concern regarding the humanitarian crisis and the need to continue to support aid organizations and UN bodies delivering assistance consistent with humanitarian principles" in Afghanistan.
Amiri said in a tweet that she and her colleagues had"called for the removal of restrictions on women & girls, including access to education & work; release of detainees; & end to corporal punishment, & crackdown on media & freedom of expression."The U.S. and the United Nations have made human rights demands of the Taliban since the group stormed back to power when the U.S. military withdrew from the country in August 2021.
The most recent crackdown was a ban on beauty salons, which the clerics ordered to close countrywide last month, eliminating one of the last means Afghan women had of interacting and earning income. "Each country is pursuing their political interests, as opposed to the interests of the people of Afghanistan and women of Afghanistan," Kofi told CBS News on Tuesday."That's why people question the principles of engagement" with the Taliban.
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