At UN meeting, Taliban asked to include women into public life

UN Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo on Tuesday defended the decision to exclude civil society groups, including women’s rights activists, from the two-day meeting on Afghanistan in Doha. She stated that the Taliban authorities were informed that women must be included in public life, despite their refusal to sit across the table with Afghan civil society in this format.
The UN-hosted meeting, which began on Sunday, is the third such gathering to be held in Qatar in just over a year,…