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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION (2024/2617(RSP))

On The repressive environment in Afghanistan, including public executions and violence against women

B-9-2024-0188

on behalf of the ECR Group · Rapporteur: Anna Fotyga, Angel Dzhambazki, Waldemar Tomaszewski, Joachim Stanisław Brudziński, Assita Kanko, Andżelika Anna Możdżanowska, Adam Bielan, Witold Jan Waszczykowski, Beata Mazurek, Carlo Fidanza, Veronika Vrecionová, Alexandr Vondra, Elżbieta Rafalska, Bogdan Rzońca, Ryszard Czarnecki, Eugen Jurzyca

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This is a motion for a resolution by the ECR Group on the repressive environment in Afghanistan, including public executions and violence against women. It condemns Taliban punishments and discrimination against women, stands with Afghans reclaiming their rights, and calls on the international community to increase pressure on the Taliban.

Key points

  1. Condemns the brutal and undignified punishments against women by the Taliban under Sharia law, including deeply entrenched discrimination and stereotypes held by the exclusively male judiciary.
  2. Condemns the Taliban regime for denying any form of normal life to girls and women in Afghanistan.
  3. Stands with Afghans in reclaiming their traditions and rights.
  4. Highlights the detrimental effects of Taliban policy on women, including their mental health.
  5. Recognizes that Afghan women and girls need the support of the international community.
  6. Calls on the international community to increase pressure on the Taliban to revoke its oppressive policies and to raise international awareness about these oppressions.
  7. Commends the courage of Afghan women who continue to march on the streets and find ways to live their lives amid restrictions, including attending underground schools and universities.

Who is affected

  • Afghan women and girls, who face restrictions on livelihoods, identity, education, employment, leisure, travel, sports and equal access to humanitarian aid.
  • More than 100 civil society groups unable to function fully after the ban on women working for non-governmental organizations.
  • Woman human rights defender Manizha Seddiqi, who disappeared on 9 October 2023 and was later found in Taliban custody without charges.
  • Women and girls in the Shia/Hazara and Tajik communities, who were arrested on 31 December 2022 for not wearing a Hijab.

Figures and deadlines

  • Women cannot travel more than 75 kilometres without a male guardian.
  • Since January 2023 there have been at least 1,977 documented claims of human rights breaches involving killings, arbitrary detentions and torture of women.
  • Manizha Seddiqi disappeared on 9 October 2023.
  • On 31 December 2022 women and girls in the Shia/Hazara and Tajik communities were arrested for not wearing a Hijab.