us special envoy for afghan women believes that taliban are waging a war against. i've gone astonished. women and girls. that story and a whole lot more coming up in just a moment. in d w. news asia with my colleague parish batter jay, i'm layla rock and berlin on behalf of all of us here. thank you very much for spending this part of your day with us. asi at the top with ah, ah, if you ever have to cover up a murder, the best way is to make it look like an accident raring to you've never read a book like this. you don't, you literature list under germany last reads. with interest, the global economy,

our portfolio d w business beyond here the closer look at the project. our mission. to analyze the fight for market dominance. this is where did that head with d w. business beyond this is it other news asia coming up today? the taliban escalate? it's more on women. adopt at home and abroad as the hard line. both places ever more draconian restrictions on women and girls. what are the tale bond also harming themselves and all the men in the country? we have one answer from america as news, special envoy, anything to try to find one, they want greater economic engagement, the word greater normalization. one more diplomatic engagement,

all of that is contingent on their behavior and what they do in regard to women girls and human rights situation and outside of gummy on former women in peace, organize themselves to form of parliament in exile. it came to fight for the country. they were forced to flee. ah irish energy, welcome to the dublin, use asia. glad you could join us. the un security council has held an emergency session to discuss the polar bonds, restrictive policies on women in afghanistan. the yuki envoy said it was wrong and regressive, that the hard line group had banished women to the side lines of life. the thought about scabs range from preventing women from traveling without a made chaperone. cutting them off from most employment and banning older girls from going to school measures designed to erase women from public life. the latest

of these dictates requires women to cover themselves from head to toe. oh, luka is not my identity. these african women can't it? asking for justice under the taliban root takes a lot of courage, but the latest order for them to wear a complete a job, meaning to cover up everything, but their eyes has angered them once again. i'm on my midway and we want to live as living beings, viaz, lift as noble creatures not to live as a captive in one corner of the house, not to be held in the cage of our house and our husbands go and back for food. we never want a date like this. it's gonna make light protests like these usually won't last long . i'm just gonna get out of here or i'll kill you. this aunt law enforcers says most of the women and girls have no choice but to comply with the restrictions the

harshest since the taliban came to power in august 2021. just a month after to take over the regime replaced a women's ministry with the ministry of virtue and vice women and girls have been told to stay home. in the 3rd quarter of 2021, their employment levels fell by an estimated 16 percent. much more than men in december, the tale bond bent long distance travel for women without a close male relative. all of these happened while the defacto authorities say they have changed the though the welcome to the was or the so we have made progress in administration. in politics, in the development sector of the country everywhere, and an interaction with the nation will and the world merisa with, with each passing day in all walks of life. and again,

we will gain more experience to come and make more progress eligible. so that the progress is not what these skills experienced natalie been promised. they could return to secondary school in march, but they were sent home. instead, you turn in policy that confirmed to these girls that italy bond is determined to strip them of their basic rights. and gentlemen are from washington dcs, the u. s. special envoy for afghan women girls and human rights rena. amelie. welcome miss mary. the taliban continued to issue draconian dick tabs curtailing women's freedoms in afghanistan in your assessment is the situation for women and girls are going to keep getting worse was 1st thank you for having me on and putting a spotlight on the really critical issue. and unfortunately, what we're seeing is expanding sort of restrictions on women,

and it's quite systematic and it's certainly not looking good. as of 11 off on women characterize that to me, she said that she had a sense that there was a tall about a war on women. and they this, i think if it's something to, to really take stock, is that women and i feel under siege by, by the de facto authorities. and so how can you or the united states end this siege? well, we've made our position emphatically clear that the situation of women and girls and human rights is of critical importance to us. the ton of them have consistently said that they no longer want to be a pariah, be seen as a pariah by the international community. they want to have a relationship with the international community where they're seen as respect to counterparts. and we have said that so long as you continue to behave in the same

way that you did as the 1900 ninety's. there's going to be no change in our relationship and more over the, you know, there's many things that the telephone want. they want greater economic engagement . they want greater normalization. one more diplomatic engagement, all of that is contingent on their behavior and what they do in regard to women girls and the human rights situation. they know that yet they keep walking back on commitments that they had made before they took over the rule in the country. i mean, the majority of women still can't work. they controlled without man, god in secondary education is a no go to the tale. one really can the top of us should care much just because of the international community, but because they cannot hold the peace, they cannot prevent further bring dream and son. they cannot make an honest on

economically viable country for prevent further economic collapse when they, when they deny 50 percent of the population there right now. on monday state department spokesman net price said the u. s. has caught a number of tools it can use if the taliban don't undo some of their recent decisions concerning women. what are these tools? when we are we've had ongoing conversations, discussions with the telephone and the working level. we continue to engage them and to make it very clear that there are, there are a set of demands on the side of the telephone. there are things that they would like to have happen. and for that, the role of the us in the international community are cheese be down that and we, we've made it hard to drop, but they don't seem to be listening. they seem to be a hearing year, but they don't seem to be acting on it. which is why you have one division after

another. so they know they want recognition and they need to do a certain number of things to get it. but they still continue with these. jacoby and dick that's but unfortunately what appears clear is the taliban are prioritizing their internal cohesion over the, the fate of the country of the fate of the population and their relationship with the international community. they're making decisions that i think will end up costing them significantly on many different levels. now, last year in an interview in september you had said that i've gone, women feel caught a profound sense of betrayal off the u. s. withdrawal from the country given that is what their feel in your words should have gotten. it sounds women and girls expect anything at all from the united states. well i know that one of the

and response to the concerns heard from women and many and at that point as an independent actor, when i meet those comments and response to to that concern, the u. s. government established my position and my office and have provided a i think significant support to my office to, to address this issue. so i think that the commitment is certainly there. i've been in my position for 5 months and i've seen that throughout the government. there is a broad scale support for my efforts to, to advance situation of women and girls. all right, we'll leave it there for today. thank you so much for joining us. every now meeting of the us special envoy for women girls and human rights. thank you so much. thank you. some i've gone. women are trying to fight burg. 20 female lawmakers have set up a parliament in exile in greece. they escaped to the capital 8th and when the thought

about seized power last august, they had determined to use that influence and experience to help the women left behind in their homeland 3 years ago. now z for you. susie beck was elected to the afghan parliament. now, the politician has been forced into exile in athens. she says there's so much she'd wanted to get done. as far as one of you go, i got up every morning with the will and the gold to fight for afghans society and for women's rights. but as i know about it, madam, those efforts were brutally interrupted when the taliban seized power last august. crowds besieged campbell airport. desperate to leave the country used to the bank was among them. she knew that if she didn't leave afghanistan, the taliban would hunt her down. she escaped with her children, but that deeply scarred her was i'm one of my own on the women. when we got here, we had lost everything. we had to leave our family behind. my parents all of our

belongings. i was in bad shape traumatized, but i kept forcing myself to hope we thought that now we're doing much better in greece, but the poor people back in afghanistan, things are quite bad. my son left up my middle every day used to be back, talks to her family and friends back home. she was shocked when one day after the afghan new year in march, she heard that the taliban had broken their promise to allow girls to go back to school. yoga and the girl she's chatting to here had been desperate to return to a classroom. she was just about to graduate from us. i think we hope that the women who are now abroad, who fight for us and try to find a way for us to go back to school with it. and they are use of, he beg, is not alone in athens, chicago for, nor is i is one of many other afghan lawmakers in exile in the city together with

her former colleagues, nor they wants to fight for african women from here. the old greek parliament to day 24 ex lawmakers are meeting here to warm a new parliament, a parliament in exile and a female one. before the taliban invasion, there were 69 women lawmakers in afghanistan. now not a single woman is in government, and the legislature has been abolished. shaggy nor is i starkly warns the west over officially recognizing the taliban. oh, oh ha. ah ah oh, sneaking from brussels member of the european parliament hannon, no man shares that view dialogue with the taliban should continue. but the west

should also take this exiled parliament seriously. the law makers here will need such backing to give a voice to people in their homeland afghans who could not leave the country and now have to live under the television part. and that's it for today as ever this morn, our website, we're back here again on monday. we'll see you then, but i to the point, strong opinions, clear positions, international perspectives, plugin reputed and brushes, armed forces have suffered some serious setbacks during the invasion of neighboring ukraine. so will they scale back operations or is put in perhaps to launch a new campaign? find out on to the point shortly. to the point,

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