RT @AWACB_DE: در سراسر جهان، زنان و مردان افغان، مدافعان حقوق بشر و حامیان حقوق زنان، صدای خود را در همبستگی با زنانی که توسط طالبان در هرا…

RT @AWACB_DE: در سراسر جهان، زنان و مردان افغان، مدافعان حقوق بشر و حامیان حقوق زنان، صدای خود را در همبستگی با زنانی که توسط طالبان در هرا…

If the Taliban do not immediately release the 46 women they have detained, we will launch a global wave of peaceful protests. From the White House to Berlin, Brussels, Oslo, Stockholm and Geneva — from the heart of Europe to inside Afghanistan and its neighbouring countries — we will raise our voices until every detained woman is free. اگر طالبان ۴۶ زنی را که بازداشت کرده‌اند فوراً آزاد نکنند، ما موجی از اعتراضات جهانی و مسالمت‌آمیز را به راه خواهیم انداخت. از قصر سفید تا برلین، بروکسل، اسلو، استکهلم و ژنو — از قلب اروپا تا داخل افغانستان و کشورهای همسایه — صدای خود را بلند خواهیم کرد، تا زمانی که هر زن بازداشت‌شده آزاد شود. Pashto که طالبان هغه ۴۶ ښځې چې نیولي یې دي، سمدستي خوشې نه کړي، موږ به د نړۍ په کچه د سوله‌ییزو لاریونونو یو پراخ بهیر پیل کړو. له سپینې ماڼۍ څخه تر برلین، بروکسل، اوسلو، سټاکهلم او جنیوا پورې — د اروپا له زړه څخه تر افغانستانه دننه او ګاونډیو هېوادونو پورې — موږ به خپل غږ پورته کړو، تر هغه چې هره نیول شوې ښځه ازاده شي. #NoEUDealsWithTaliban #DontNormalizeTaliban #EUValuesMatter #HumanRightsNotDeportations @vonderleyen @AuswaertigesAmt @AussenMinDE @BfV_Bund @BMI_Bund @EPinASEAN @ManonAubryFr @Tineke_Strik @HannaGedin @EUCouncilPress @Europarl_EN @EP_President @EUCouncil @EUCouncilPress @EUparliament @C_AB_ @HNeumannMEP @BelgiumMFA @BelgiuminEU @unwomenchief @AmnestyUN @UN_Women @unwomenpacific @ECPMF @heatherbarr1 @ProAsyl @RESCUEorg @DEonHumanRights @eu_eeas @EU_Justice @minister_bzk @MariaStenergard @JohanForssell @Justitiedep @prevotmaxime @anneleen_vb @BernardQuintin_ @AussenMinDE @natalie_pawlik @BMI_Bund @ministerBZ @MinisterAenM @minister_bzk @WaisBarakzai @HabibKhanT @heatherbarr1 @AFIntl_En @AmuTelevision

Herat is rising. In the last three days, 46 women have been arrested, yet people continue to take to the streets in defense of their rights and dignity. Now is the time to stand together. Join the movement, raise your voice, and defend your rights and the rights of others. Silence will not bring change—unity and courage will.

Statement by the Afghan Women Activists Coordinating Body on the Arrest of Women in Herat The Afghan Women Activists Coordinating Body strongly condemns the reported arrest of dozens of women and girls by the Taliban in Herat under the pretext of “bad hijab”. According to eyewitnesses, photos and video footage received from Herat, Taliban forces arrested women in public spaces simply because their faces were not fully covered. These arrests are not isolated incidents. They are part of the Taliban’s systematic campaign of gender persecution, fear and total control over Afghan women’s bodies, movement and existence. For Afghan women, arrest by the Taliban is not a legal procedure. It is a threat of disappearance, humiliation, physical abuse, psychological torture, sexual violence and rape. Survivors and human rights defenders have repeatedly reported abuse inside Taliban detention facilities, while families are silenced through fear, shame and intimidation. We directly address the President of the European Commission (@EUCommission2), the Swedish Ministry of Justice (@Justitiedep) all European governments involved in any planned engagement with Taliban representatives in Brussels: -Do not invite the Taliban. Condemn them. -Do not give them legitimacy. Hold them accountable. -Do not discuss deportations with a regime that arrests women for showing their faces. Protect Afghan refugees from being returned to danger. At this very moment, Afghan women are being hunted in the streets for existing as women. Any political engagement that normalises the Taliban while these crimes continue is a betrayal of human rights, women’s rights and European values. We call for the immediate and unconditional release of all detained women in Herat. We call on the @EU_Commission , the @SR_Afghanistan , @UN_Women , @OHCHRAsia , @IOMAfghanistan ,#amnesty and international media to urgently investigate the available video and photo evidence, publicly condemn these arrests, and demand accountability for Taliban crimes, including torture, sexual violence and gender persecution. Silence is complicity. Engagement without accountability is legitimisation. The Afghan Women Activists Coordinating Body stands with the women of Herat and with all Afghan women living under Taliban oppression. Afghan women do not need empty sympathy. They need protection, pressure on the Taliban and immediate international action. Afghan Women Activists Coordinating Body 07.06.2026 #NoEUDealsWithTaliban #DontNormalizeTaliban #EUValuesMatter #HumanRightsNotDeportations @vonderleyen @AuswaertigesAmt @AussenMinDE @BfV_Bund @BMI_Bund @EPinASEAN @ManonAubryFr @Tineke_Strik @HannaGedin @EUCouncilPress @Europarl_EN @EP_President @EUCouncil @EUCouncilPress @EUparliament @C_AB_ @HNeumannMEP @BelgiumMFA @BelgiuminEU @unwomenchief @AmnestyUN @UN_Women @unwomenpacific @ECPMF @heatherbarr1 @ProAsyl @RESCUEorg @DEonHumanRights @eu_eeas @EU_Justice @minister_bzk @MariaStenergard @JohanForssell @Justitiedep @prevotmaxime @anneleen_vb @BernardQuintin_ @AussenMinDE @natalie_pawlik @BMI_Bund @ministerBZ @MinisterAenM @minister_bzk

72 civil society, human rights, women’s rights, refugee protection and diaspora organisations from #Europe, #Afghanistan and around the world urge EU leaders to stop any planned meeting with Taliban representatives in Brussels. Afghanistan is not safe. No forced returns. No normalisation of the Taliban. No compromise on human rights. #Afghanistan #Taliban #HumanRights #Refugees #WomenRights #NoEUDealsWithTaliban #DontNormalizeTaliban #EUValuesMatter #HumanRightsNotDeportations @vonderleyen @kajakallas @AuswaertigesAmt @AussenMinDE @BfV_Bund @BMI_Bund @Left_EU @EPinASEAN @ManonAubryFr @Tineke_Strik @HannaGedin @SR_Afghanistan @EUCouncilPress @Europarl_EN @EP_President @ABaerbockArchiv @dieLinkeEP @EUCouncil @EUCouncilPress @EUparliament @C_AB_ @HNeumannMEP @eui_org @Europ @Europarl_EN @UNSC_Reports @BelgiumMFA @BelgiuminEU @unwomenchief @AmnestyUN @UN_Women @unwomenpacific @ECPMF @heatherbarr1 @ProAsyl @RESCUEorg @DEonHumanRights @eu_eeas @EU_Justice

عید مبارک در این زمان دشوار و مهم، برای شما و عزیزان‌تان عیدی آرام، پربرکت و سرشار از صلح آرزو می‌کنم. امیدوارم قربانی‌ها، دعاها و امیدهای‌تان پذیرفته شود. عمیق‌ترین آرزوی من این است که این عید پیام‌آور صلح، عدالت و کرامت باشد — و وضعیت زنان و دختران افغانستان هرچه زودتر به سوی بهتر شدن تغییر کند. عشق و صلح برای همه. اختر مو مبارک په دې سخت او مهم وخت کې، زه تاسو او ستاسو عزیزانو ته یو ارام، له برکته ډک او سوله ییز اختر غواړم. هیله لرم چې قربانۍ، دعاګانې او هیلې مو قبولې شي. زما تر ټولو ستره هیله دا ده چې دا اختر د سولې، عدالت او کرامت پیغام راوړي — او د افغانستان د ښځو او نجونو وضعیت ژر تر ژره د ښه کېدو پر لور بدل شي. ټولو ته مینه او سوله.

If only we were allowed — to dream, to learn, to climb. Imagine how high Afghan girls could go. #LetAfghanGirlsRise #Afghanistan #WomenRights #EducationIsARight اگر فقط اجازه می‌داشتیم — رؤیا ببینیم، بیاموزیم و بالا برویم. تصور کنید دختران افغانستان تا کجا می‌توانستند اوج بگیرند. که یوازې اجازه راکړل شوې وای — خوبونه ووینو، زده کړه وکړو او لوړو ته وخېژو. تصور وکړئ چې افغان نجونې به څومره لوړې تللی شوې وای.

EU leaders and Afghanistan’s neighbouring countries must listen to @volker_turk and @UNHumanRights: Afghanistan is not safe. Afghan women, children and men must not be forced back to Taliban rule, where they face grave risks. Deportation must not become an excuse for engaging with, legitimising or normalising a regime that violates human rights, imposes gender apartheid and persecutes its own people. Halt involuntary returns to Afghanistan. No normalisation of the Taliban. ohchr.org/en/press-releases/… #Afghanistan #NoToTaliban #StopTalibanNormalization #HumanRights #GenderApartheid #NoEUDealsWithTaliban #DontNormalizeTaliban #EUValuesMatter #HumanRightsNotDeportations @vonderleyen @kajakallas @AuswaertigesAmt @AussenMinDE @BfV_Bund @BMI_Bund @Left_EU @EPinASEAN @ManonAubryFr @Tineke_Strik @HannaGedin @SR_Afghanistan @EUCouncilPress @Europarl_EN @EP_President @ABaerbockArchiv @dieLinkeEP @EUCouncil @EUCouncilPress @Europarl_Photo @C_AB_ @HNeumannMEP @AWACB_DE @eui_org @eui_org @Europarl_EN @UNSC_Reports @BelgiumMFA @BelgiuminEU @unwomenchief @amnesty @UN_Women @unwomenpacific @ECPMF @heatherbarr1 @ProAsyl @RESCUEorg @DEonHumanRights @eu_eeas @EU_Justice

I fully support this clear, strong and important message from @UNHumanRights To all relevant States, please read, listen, take note and act. Protect #afghans from involuntary return. Respect their human rights and international law. Avoid refoulement. #Afghanistan is not safe.

Mein neuer Beitrag im PRIF Blog ist online: Ich schreibe über den wachsenden Einfluss der Taliban auf afghanische Auslandsvertretungen in Deutschland, die Risiken faktischer Normalisierung und die möglichen Folgen für afghanische Exil-Communities, Frauenrechtlerinnen, Oppositionelle und andere gefährdete Gruppen. Konsularische Notwendigkeiten dürfen nicht zur politischen Normalisierung der Taliban führen. blog.prif.org/en/2026/05/22/… #Afghanistan #NoToTaliban #GenderApartheid #HumanRights #PRIF

Thank you, Raquel García Hermida-van der Walle, Chair of the Delegation for Relations with Afghanistan, for keeping your promise after receiving our letter and for taking such a clear position yesterday. Inviting the Taliban to Brussels for deportation talks sends a dangerous and unacceptable signal. As long as the Taliban continue to violate human rights, impose gender apartheid, persecute women, minorities, journalists and activists, and fuel extremism, there must be no political normalization of the Taliban in Europe. #NoToTaliban #StopTalibanNormalization #GenderApartheid #HumanRights #Afghanistan #D66 #RenewEurope

The European Parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution condemning the Taliban’s recently enacted Criminal Procedure Code for Courts and calling for expanded sanctions against Taliban leaders over the treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan. amu.tv/240281/

Thank you, dear @HNeumannMEP , for taking such a clear and principled position. Inviting the Taliban to Brussels for deportation talks sends a dangerous signal. As long as they continue to violate human rights, impose gender apartheid and persecute women, minorities, journalists and activists, there must be no political normalization of the Taliban in Europe. #NoToTaliban #StopTalibanNormalization #GenderApartheid #HumanRights #Afghanistan

In continuation of our previous open letter — and the commitments and reassurances given by several members of the European Parliament — we are deeply alarmed by the recent Euractiv reports regarding planned meetings between EU Commission representatives and the Taliban. Today, we sent an official follow-up letter to the leadership of the EU institutions and Members of the European Parliament. Human rights, international law, and the credibility of European values must not be sacrificed for migration politics. #NoEUDealsWithTaliban #DontNormalizeTaliban #EUValuesMatter #HumanRightsNotDeportations @vonderleyen @kajakallas @AuswaertigesAmt @AussenMinDE @BfV_Bund @BMI_Bund @Left_EU @EPinASEAN @ManonAubryFr @Tineke_Strik @HannaGedin @SR_Afghanistan @EUCouncilPress @Europarl_EN @EP_President @ABaerbockArchiv @dieLinkeEP @EUCouncil @EUCouncilPress @EUparliament @C_AB_ @HNeumannMEP @AWACB_DE @eui_org @Europ @europa @UNSC_Reports @BelgiumMFA @BelgiuminEU @unwomenchief @AmnestyUN @UN_Women @unwomenpacific @ECPMF @heatherbarr1 @ProAsyl @RESCUEorg , @DEonHumanRights @eu_eeas @EU_Justice

Our open Letter to Federal Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindt and Federal Foreign Minister Dr. Johann Wadephul Taliban-linked representatives are now reportedly recruiting interns for Afghan diplomatic missions in Germany. While girls in Afghanistan are banned from schools and universities, and the Taliban systematically transform education into ideological madrasa structures, long-term influence networks are now beginning to emerge in Europe as well. Is the German government fully aware of the long-term security, democratic, and societal implications of these developments? Embassies and consulates are not politically neutral spaces. Whoever builds recruitment pipelines and institutional presence there is investing in long-term political and ideological influence. Many Afghans in Germany fled precisely these structures. Now they watch with growing concern as Taliban-linked networks gradually gain institutional space inside Europe. This is no longer only about Afghanistan. It is about the future of democracy, rule of law, human rights, and security in Germany and the European Union. AWACB calls for: -no gradual normalization of the Taliban, --full transparency regarding consular and diplomatic structures, -protection of the Afghan diaspora, and a clear human-rights-based position by the German government. The question is no longer only who controls Afghan consulates. The real question is: What political and ideological structures is Europe willing to tolerate within its own societies? @vonderleyen @AuswaertigesAmt @AussenMinDE @BfV_Bund @BMI_Bund @ManonAubryFr @Tineke_Strik @SR_Afghanistan @EUCouncilPress @Europarl_EN @EP_President @ABaerbockArchiv @dieLinkeEP @EUCouncil @EUCouncilPress @EUparliament @C_AB_ @HNeumannMEP @AWACB_DE @eui_org @Europ @europa @UNSC_Reports @BelgiumMFA @BelgiuminEU @unwomenchief @AmnestyUN @UN_Women @unwomenpacific @ECPMF @heatherbarr1 #Afghanistan #Taliban #Germany #Europe #HumanRights #WomenRights #Democracy #AWACB

A coalition of women’s rights activists based in Germany has warned the German government against what it described as the gradual normalization of Taliban-linked influence inside Afghanistan’s diplomatic missions in Europe, arguing that the development poses political, social and security risks beyond the Afghan diaspora itself. amu.tv/238671/

ائتلافی از فعالان حقوق زنان افغانستان در آلمان از دولت این کشور خواسته است مانع «عادی‌سازی تدریجی نفوذ طالبان» در نمایندگی‌های دیپلماتیک افغانستان در اروپا شود. این ائتلاف که با نام «نهاد هماهنگی فعالان زن افغانستان» شناخته می‌شود، در نامه‌ای سرگشاده به وزیر داخله و وزیر خارجه آلمان گفته است که تحولات اخیر در نمایندگی‌های دیپلماتیک افغانستان در آلمان نگرانی‌ها را در میان مهاجران افغانستان افزایش داده است. amu.tv/fa/238676/

On this Mother’s Day, the Afghan Women Activists Coordinating Body (AWACB) sends its deepest respect and solidarity to mothers around the world — especially to the mothers who continue to fight for dignity, survival, and the future of their children under war, oppression, displacement, and injustice. Today, while many celebrate with flowers and family gatherings, countless Afghan mothers spend this day in fear, grief, exile, poverty, or silence. Some have buried their children in war. Some watch their daughters being denied education and their sons growing up under extremism and violence. Some are imprisoned inside their homes simply because they are women. Afghan mothers are not only victims of oppression — they are the backbone of resistance, courage, and survival. They carried families through decades of war. They protected hope when the world looked away. And even today, under one of the most misogynistic regimes in modern history, Afghan mothers continue to resist with dignity and strength. This Mother’s Day is not only a celebration. It is also a reminder. A world that speaks of human rights while millions of mothers live under terror, hunger, forced displacement, and gender apartheid cannot call itself truly just. We call on women around the world to stand together — beyond borders, languages, and politics. The struggle of Afghan women is not an isolated struggle. It is part of the global fight for freedom, equality, dignity, and humanity. No mother should fear for the future of her daughter because of her gender. No mother should watch her child grow up under extremism and violence. No mother should be erased from public life because of ideology. Today we honor every mother who continues to love, protect, resist, and survive against all odds. To the mothers of Afghanistan and to mothers everywhere: Your courage is stronger than oppression. Your voice is stronger than silence. And your fight for your children’s future will never be forgotten.