'They are denying rights to women for education and in the workplace, and that has to be reversed.' U.N. leader Amina Mohamed discusses humanitarian work women in Afghanistan and the Taliban's harsh restrictions.
March 9, 2023, 1:35 PMUN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Jane Mohammed speaks at the Oslo Energy Forum, which is held at Oslo City Hall, Norway, on Feb. 14, 2023.soon after returning to power in 2021, imposing bans on education, work and the ability to travel without a male guardian. Women who have protested the oppressive new rules face arrest and the possibility of being tortured and forcibly disappeared, according to a report from Amnesty International.
AMINA MOHAMED: Absolutely. It was a huge task and a half. We did a lot of consultation before we got there with Afghan women, Afghan women who have been in the United States for a couple of decades, those who've come just recently as the Taliban came back in and many Afghan women within Afghanistan, countries in the neighborhood. They have a right to be in the workplace. In fact, Islam itself, the jihad, was founded by a woman and the prophet’s an employee of a woman.
KOSAR ABDI: One concern that we've heard expressed, particularly in Afghanistan, is about young girls being forced into marriage. Can you touch a little bit about the U.N.'s response to preventing child marriages?
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