Barisan Etorajan

Our global affairs reporter and Barisan Etorajan has been following the story. I asked him first of all to explain what is going on at the border between the two countries. Tens of thousands of Afghans, more than 60% of them women and children, those who were forced to leave Iran in the past year, they have been coming. Now the UN says the Afghan national women staff, they have been prevented from working by the Taliban authorities there.

This has caused a huge operational challenge to them. Women play a very key role in terms of talking to other Afghan women who are coming from Iran. Nutrition, health, documentation and also giving vaccines. In the past one year or so, both Pakistan and Iran, they have been forcing undocumented Afghans to leave the country.

This is because of their internal politics. For example, in Pakistan there have been increasing attacks on security forces. And also Iran, they have millions of people staying there. This is causing them a lot of difficulty and burden. It is one of those...

under covered event people how they're struggling at the border because you know where they will go because they lived in Iran for example in Pakistan for years so they have to find a place where they had the relatives where they had the roots so it is a big humanitarian challenge which has gone probably you know escaped the attention of the international media and the international community because of what else is going on around the world. So what's happening now with the restrictions on women?

After seizing power in 2021, the Taliban, they have stopped girls from going to secondary schools, from attending universities. And the response from the Taliban has been that they are devising a curriculum suiting their culture and tradition. And that's why they have temporarily stopped. As far as women are concerned, there are a number of restrictions.

Heidän täytyy olla yhdessä henkilökohtainen, jos he käyvät pitkälle kautta. He eivät voi mennä jimisille ja yksityiskohtaisille. He eivät voi työskennellä suurin osa hallituksista. Vuonna septembrista he jopa pysähtivät naisia menemään ja työskennellään Yhdysvalloissa. Se oli aika vahva huomio Talibanista, että he eivät pitäisi mennä ja työskennellä näissä yhdysvalloissa.

Ja nyt on hieman hankalampi ristriksio, kuten Yhdysvalloissa, koska tämä on kuten turvallisuusjärjestöjä. Situation on todella pahaa alueella. Even there they have been stopped. So the restrictions on women and making them what some of the activists would call, that erasing them from public life continues in Afghanistan.

Whereas the Afghan Taliban say, you know, they are following whatever that Islamic traditions they follow. And that is the rules they are imposing. And they will come back with the reopening of educational institutions with their own curriculum. And people are still waiting for that.

Ja katsokaa, paitsi, paitsi, paitsi, paitsi, paitsi.