UNO: The highest-ranking female official at the United Nations said on Wednesday she used every tool in her "toolbox" to try to reverse the Taliban's crackdown on Afghan women and girls during a meeting with Taliban ministers and urged Muslim countries appealed to assist. The Taliban is moving from the "13th century to the 21st century".

Four Taliban ministers, including the foreign minister and deputy prime minister, spoke "off a script" in meetings with their delegation last week, according to Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, a Muslim and former member of the Nigerian cabinet.

She claimed that the officers attempted to highlight actions she claimed to have taken but for which she claimed received no credit, as well as their efforts to promote a culture that protected women.

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Following those meetings in Afghanistan's capital Kabul and the Islamic movement's birthplace in Kandahar, UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths and leaders of key aid organizations visited Afghanistan this week.

They are pressing the Taliban to revoke its order last month that barred Afghan women from working for domestic and foreign NGOs.

Speaking from Kabul on Wednesday, Griffiths said the Taliban needed to be convinced that it was necessary to start aid operations and allow women to work in them. The delegation's message was straightforward: The ban makes it harder for the groups to do their jobs, they said.

According to Griffiths, the people I spoke to "understand the need and the right of Afghan women to work, and they will work on a set of guidelines, which we will see issued in due course, that address those needs." Will answer.

Mohammad claimed that his delegation, which included the head of UN Women, who advocates for women's rights and gender equality, opposed the Taliban, including what he called humanitarian principles.

"We reminded them that non-discrimination was an important component of humanitarian principles ... as well as the fact that they were eliminating women from the workforce," she said.

Mohammad claimed that she informed ministers that as a Sunni Muslim, Taliban officials, like her when it came to restricting women's rights and preventing girls from continuing their education after the sixth grade, They are not following Islam and harming others.

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Mohammad claimed that in one situation, a representative of the Taliban, whom he did not name, informed him that "it was haram (forbidden by Islamic law) for me to talk to them there."

She said that she played "that game" and did not look directly at them because these stereotypes would not look directly at a woman.
We pushed, she said, "and I gave as much as I think they gave."

The UN delegation pressed for a deadline after Mohammad claimed that the Taliban had promised that rights that had been taken away from women and girls would eventually be returned. They would usually say "soon", she remarked.

In the final weeks of the departure of US and NATO forces from Afghanistan after 20 years of war, the Taliban once again took control of the country in August 2021.

The Taliban, according to Mohammad, want both international recognition at the United Nations and a seat in Afghanistan, which is currently held by the former administration of Ashraf Ghani. No country has recognized the Taliban. Mohammed said, "We must hold on to the leverage that we have, which is recognition.

Mohammad's delegation visited Muslim-majority countries such as Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Turkey, the Gulf states and Indonesia before arriving in Kabul, where he claimed there was widespread opposition to the Taliban's restrictions.

According to her, one proposal is for a conference on women in the Muslim world to be held in mid-March at the United Nations and the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

He declared that cooperation among Muslim countries was important. We must take the fight to the field, and we must be bold and bold about it because women's rights matter.

The ban on Afghan women working for non-governmental organizations was issued in Kandahar on the orders of Hibatullah Akhundzdza, the supreme leader of the reclusive Taliban. Griffith, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, and his delegation, which included the heads of Care International and Save the Children US, did not attend.

Although Griffith acknowledged Akhundzada's position as leader, he noted that there are many more important voices of Taliban officials across the country.

He said, "I don't think it's just asking one man to take responsibility and change an edict. "This edict has a collective responsibility, and I hope we're developing a collective will to make up for its prohibition," the speaker said.

According to Janti Soeripto of Save the Children, meetings were held with eight ministries in just two days, and some Taliban members appeared to understand the need to lift the embargo.

Theyare resisting because they don't want to appear to be making a U-turn, she claimed. People will feel less inclined if they don't perceive the effects as viscerally as we do.

Mohammed emphasised the significance of the UN and its allies working harder in the 20 more progressive provinces of Afghanistan.
"How we travel the Taliban from the 13th century to the 21st century is a lot of what we have to deal with," she said. That journey is there. So, it doesn't just happen overnight.

She claimed that the Taliban informed her delegation that it was drafting a law prohibiting gender-based violence, which she described as "a big plus" given the rise in rape and other attacks in Afghanistan.
I want to pressure the Taliban to support putting that law into effect, she declared.

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Mohammed emphasised the need to use all available leverage to compel the Taliban to return to the values that underpin membership in the "international family."

No one has any issues with Islam or Sharia law, she claimed. But none of this can be repurposed to promote extremism and attitudes that are harmful to women and girls. This is completely unacceptable, and we must maintain our position.