INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammad expressed alarm to Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) officials in Kandahar over the situation
of women&s rights in Afghanistan, the United Nations said on Friday.Mohammad finished a four-day visit to Afghanistan on Friday, after also
meeting IEA officials in the capital Kabul
This comes after IEA banned most female aid workers from working and stopped women and girls from attending high school and university,
Reuters reported.&My message was very clear: while we recognize the important exemptions made, these restrictions present Afghan women and
girls with a future that confines them in their own homes, violating their rights and depriving the communities of their services,& Mohammad
said in a statement.In Kandahar & home to the IEA&s supreme spiritual leader who has the final say on major decisions & Mohammad met with
Deputy Governor Hayatullah Mubarak.He told her that the IEA wanted a strong relationship with the world, the removal of sanctions on its
leaders and to be able to send an ambassador to the UN, said the Kandahar information office.The UN General Assembly last month postponed
for the second time a decision on whether the IEA can send an ambassador to New York
Dozens of IEA leaders are also subject to UN sanctions.No government has formally recognized the IEA since it seized power in August
2021.&Right now, Afghanistan is isolating itself, in the midst of a terrible humanitarian crisis and one of the most vulnerable nations on
earth to climate change,& Mohammad said.The post Deputy UN chief pushes for women&s rights during visit to Kandahar first appeared on Ariana
