The World Organization of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), gathering over 240.000 member worldwide expresses its deep concern about the ongoing situation in Afghanistan and the impact on the human rights and livelihoods of its people, in particular women and girls that might be again deprived from the most basic rights including, movement, work and education.
Afghan women and girls, as all Afghan people, deserve to live in safety, security and dignity. Any form of discrimination and abuse should be prevented, human rights need to be protected and preserved for everyone.
In this trying context we call:
We encourage our membership to
In the hope and conviction that the international community can stand to the task and that humanity will not let the people of Afghanistan, its women and girls’ rights, fall back twenty years; we commit to solidarity, working together and standing for human rights and making sure that the voices of the people, in particular women and girls, of are heard.
Source: UCLG