To the free women and people of Afghanistan, human rights organizations, and the international community!
We, the members of the "Women Justice Movement," once again raise our voices for justice from behind the high walls of tyranny and from the heart of one of the darkest eras in our country’s contemporary history. What is being imposed on women and girls in Afghanistan today is no longer mere discrimination or a traditional crisis; it is a full-blown, systematic, and targeted "gender apartheid" that strikes at the very root of the life, identity, and future of half of society.
Recently, the Taliban group has taken another regressive step toward institutionalizing violence against women by releasing a document titled "Principles of Marital Dissolution" (Osool-nama-e Tafriq-e Zawjayn). This document acts as an official license to facilitate and promote child marriage and legitimize forced unions. In the shadow of these Taliban policies, innocent girls who should be sitting behind school and university desks, shaping the future of this land, are being forced into the slaughterhouse of early, compulsory marriages and undisguised violence.
We, the members of the Movement of Justice-Seeking Women, through our protest videos, explicitly declare:
* First: We view the Taliban's "Principles of Marital Dissolution" as an inhuman, un-Islamic document and a tool to enslave young girls, and we condemn it in the strongest possible terms.
* Second: We emphasize that this tragedy is not just a cultural or social issue, but a blatant violation of human rights and a clear manifestation of systematic violence against women and children.
* Third: We call on the international community, human rights bodies, and the United Nations to move beyond empty statements and habitual expressions of concern. They must formally recognize the ongoing gender apartheid in Afghanistan and hold the leaders of this group accountable for crimes against humanity and women's rights.
We firmly believe and declare that silence in the face of this oppression is complicity with the oppressor. The empty chairs in girls' schools, the hidden tears of child brides, and the suffocating screams are living witnesses to this dark chapter of history. However, we will not surrender; we will not bow to this captivity, and we will continue our struggle and advocacy until we reclaim our right to education, work, freedom, and human dignity.
Bread, Work, Freedom Education and Dignity!
Movement of Justice Women
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