On the deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”
B-10-2024-0038
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group · Rapporteur: Hannah Neumann, Mounir Satouri, Catarina Vieira, Erik Marquardt, Maria Ohisalo, Sergey Lagodinsky, Nicolae Ştefănuță, Vicent Marzà Ibáñez, Alice Kuhnke, Gordan Bosanac, Leoluca Orlando, Lena Schilling
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The resolution condemns the Taliban's gender apartheid and the recent morality law restricting women's rights in Afghanistan, demanding its rescission and the immediate restoration of education for girls.¶¶ It calls on the EU and member states to increase humanitarian aid, support civil society, impose sanctions on violators, avoid deporting Afghans, and promote gender apartheid as an international crime.¶¶¶
Key points
- Expresses grave concern about the humanitarian and human rights crises in Afghanistan.¶
- Calls for the immediate rescinding of the morality law and condemns gender apartheid.¶
- Demands that the Taliban allow girls of all ages to attend school and receive education on an equal basis with boys.¶
- Denounces targeting of human rights defenders, journalists, LGBTIQ+ people, dissidents, judges, and repression of peaceful protest.¶
- Condemns arbitrary detention of human rights defenders, protestors, and artists, and calls for their immediate release.¶
- Calls for halting executions and abolishing the death penalty and other cruel punishments.¶
- Urges the EU to increase support to Afghan civil society, especially women's rights groups, and fund protection programmes for human rights defenders and minorities.¶
- Calls on the EU and member states to expand restrictive measures against violators, support the UN Special Rapporteur's mandate, and establish an independent investigative mechanism.¶
- Calls on the EU and member states to increase humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people.¶
- Insists on maintaining conditional engagement with the Taliban based on the Council's five benchmarks.¶
- Denounces pushbacks of Afghans at EU borders and calls on member states to refrain from deporting Afghan nationals and grant residence permits.¶
- Calls on the High Representative to spearhead an EU initiative to codify gender apartheid as a crime under international law.¶
Who is affected
- Women and girls in Afghanistan, whose rights are restricted by the morality law.¶¶
- Religious and ethnic minorities, particularly Hazaras, facing repression and discrimination.¶
- Human rights defenders, journalists, civil society actors, LGBTIQ+ people, dissidents, judges, protestors, and artists in Afghanistan.¶¶
- Afghan nationals seeking refuge in the EU, who should not be deported and should receive residence permits.¶