KABUL: Human rights organization Femina has reacted to the arrest of a girl named Nooria for dressing as a boy and working in Helmand, stating that her situation is a consequence of a systematic structure aimed at stripping the human dignity and future of girls. In a post on X today, Femina noted that under Taliban rule, girls are banned from education and work and are punished for attempting to survive. Femina added that Nooria’s case reflects the lives of millions of girls in Afghanistan who are compelled to work out of desperation. The statement reads: “This situation reflects not an individual moral failure but the result of a targeted system aimed at stripping human dignity, agency, and future from girls.” The organization pointed out that Nooria’s story is just one of countless examples of structured gender-based harassment faced by women and girls in Afghanistan. It emphasized that girls and women in the country are deprived of their basic rights, abducted, and humiliated, yet continue to strive for survival and resist their erasure. Femina has called on the international community to implement targeted sanctions and travel bans against Taliban officials and to pursue accountability for human rights violations through the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice. Additionally, the organization urged increased support for education, livelihoods, and mechanisms to assist women and girls both in Afghanistan and abroad, stressing that the cost of inaction against the Taliban is borne daily by girls like Nooria.
