MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION (2024/2617(RSP))
On the repressive environment in Afghanistan, including public executions and violence against women
B-9-2024-0193
on behalf of the PPE Group · Rapporteur: Željana Zovko, Michael Gahler, Lukas Mandl, David McAllister, Tomáš Zdechovský, Vladimír Bilčík, Vangelis Meimarakis, Michaela Šojdrová, Leopoldo López Gil, Ivan Štefanec, Peter Pollák
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Parliament's motion for a resolution condemns the Taliban's repression in Afghanistan, including public executions and restrictions on women and girls. It demands that gender-based restrictions be lifted and public executions stop, and calls for an international accountability mechanism.¶¶¶
Key points
- Deeply deplores the continuing deterioration of the political, economic, humanitarian, human rights and security situation in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover of August 2021.¶
- Condemns the Taliban's increasing discriminatory restrictions on women and girls and its crackdown on dissent, and says the situation qualifies as gender apartheid.¶
- Condemns harsh penalties for non-compliance with the strict dress code and expresses outrage at the disrespect for women's and girls' fundamental rights.
- Demands that the de facto authorities lift all gender-based restrictions on women so they can participate in public life, and says this must be a key condition for international engagement with the Taliban.¶
- Urges the EU to step up support to Afghan groups working to defend the rights of women and girls.
- Denounces continuing public executions by the de facto Taliban authorities and demands they cease immediately.¶
- Calls on the de facto authorities to establish an immediate moratorium on capital punishment as a step towards its abolition.
- Calls on the EU and Member States to support the establishment of an international accountability mechanism to collect and preserve evidence of serious violations for future criminal proceedings.¶
Who is affected
- Women and girls in Afghanistan, who face restrictions on education, mobility and employment and are targeted by dress code arrests.¶¶
- The de facto Taliban authorities, which are called on to lift restrictions and halt public executions.¶¶
- The EU and Member States, which are urged to support Afghan women's rights groups and an accountability mechanism.¶
- Ethnic minorities, in particular Hazara and Tajiks, who are disproportionately targeted by arrests over the dress code.¶