The deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the ‘Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice’

AdoptedReference RC-B10-0024/2024Gender equality

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How the groups voted

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The Left46

41005100%

S&D136

1180018100%

Greens/EFA53

5000

The European Parliament adopted by 565 votes to 8, with 43 abstentions, a resolution on the deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”.The text adopted in plenary was tabled by the EPP, PfE and ECR groups.The Taliban have implemented their extreme interpretation of Sharia and erased women from public life. Women are being forced into unwanted and early marriages and exposed to sexual violence as well as flogging and stoning to death.Moreover, a recent Taliban decree, the so-called law on the ‘Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice’, extends these restrictions by even requiring that female voices not be heard in public, thus further depriving…