The Taliban, as an ideologically driven and inherently anti-dialogue group, not only rejects pluralism of thought and the acceptance of dissent, but openly considers intellectual critics as "deserving of death.

The Taliban, as an ideologically driven and inherently anti-dialogue group, not only rejects pluralism of thought and the acceptance of dissent, but openly considers intellectual critics as “deserving of death.

” This rigid ideological framework, which lacks any genuine belief in reform or change, has rendered the policy of engagement and dialogue with the group a clear failure over the past four years. This failure has directly contributed to the worsening condition of women in Afghanistan and has emboldened the Taliban’s internal apparatus of repression a reality that was evident once again in the group’s most recent Eid al-Adha message.

Despite this, attempts to whitewash, justify, or sanitize the crimes of the Taliban and their so-called Islamic Emirate a regime built upon gender apartheid, ideological violence, structural repression, and the total denial of human rights, particularly women’s rights constitute a form of ideological complicity that must be held accountable under international law and domestic legal frameworks. Taliban lobbyists have transformed the concept of dialogue into a tactical tool for deception, stalling, and strengthening the group’s absolute power, leading Afghanistan into deep political and social stagnation.

Providing platforms to Taliban representatives or lobbyists is not only a form of indirect complicity in their crimes, but it also clearly violates the commitments enshrined in the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), various United Nations Security Council Resolutions, and other binding international legal instruments all of which prohibit political or media legitimization of extremist and violent actors such as the Taliban.

Therefore, we, the women protesters from inside Afghanistan, grounded in the principles of international law and binding human rights instruments, strongly call for the legal prosecution both nationally and internationally of all institutions and individuals who have directly or indirectly supported, promoted, or legitimized the Taliban.

We categorically demand the prohibition of any invitation to, or presence of, the Taliban and their lobbyists in international forums and gatherings, particularly in Western and