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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Tom Levitt , Annie Kelly and Zahra Joya

Shutting Afghan women out of key UN conference to appease Taliban ‘a betrayal’

Two rows of bearded men sit at a conference table.
Members of a Taliban delegation in a meeting with foreign diplomats in Doha, shortly after the group took power in 2021. Photograph: Karim Jaafar/AFP/Getty Images

Excluding Afghan women from an upcoming UN conference on Afghanistan would be a “betrayal” of women and girls in the country, say human rights groups and former politicians.

The Taliban are reportedly demanding that no Afghan women be allowed to participate in the UN meeting in Doha starting 30 June, set up to discuss the international community’s approach to Afghanistan, and that women’s rights are not on the agenda.

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