マララ・ユスフザイ氏「アフガンの姉妹たちが心配」

【ニューヨークＡＦＰ＝時事】パキスタン出身の人権活動家でノーベル平和賞受賞者のマララ・ユスフザイ氏（２４）が１８日、アフガニスタンの旧支配勢力タリバンの同国制圧を受け、米紙への寄稿で「アフガンの姉妹たちを心配している」と述べた。（写真はパキスタン出身の人権活動家でノーベル平和賞受賞者のマララ・ユスフザイ氏）
　ユスフザイ氏は米紙ニューヨーク・タイムズで、「アフガンでの紛争で何を誤ったのかを議論する時間は今後もあるだろうが、私たちはこの重大な場面で、アフガンの女性や少女の声に耳を傾けなければならない。彼女たちは保護、教育、約束された自由と未来を求めている」と述べた。「彼女たちを失望させ続けることはできない。私たちには時間がない」
　ユスフザイ氏は１５歳の時、パキスタンのイスラム武装勢力「パキスタンのタリバン運動（ＴＴＰ）」に銃撃され、重傷を負ったが一命を取り留めた。その後、英オックスフォード大学を卒業し、世界各地で女子教育を推進している。
　カタールの首都ドーハを拠点とするタリバン政治部門のスハイル・シャヒーン報道官は１７日、女性に全身を覆う衣服「ブルカ」の着用を強制しない方針を示した。さらに、女性にも初等教育から大学を含む高等教育までを認めると強調し、女性が教育を受けられなくなるという懸念の払拭（ふっしょく）に努めた。
　しかし、ユスフザイ氏はこの主張に懐疑的な見方を示した。寄稿で「タリバンが女性の権利を徹底的に抑圧してきた歴史を考えれば、アフガン女性の懸念はもっともだ」と批判した。「すでに女子学生が大学から追い出されたり、女性労働者が職場から追放されたりしているという報告が届いている」【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】

〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/08/18-13:54）

Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday wrote I fear for my Afghan sisters in an op-ed published in The New York Times in the wake of the Taliban's stunning takeover.
We will have time to debate what went wrong in the war in Afghanistan, but in this critical moment we must listen to the voices of Afghan women and girls. They are asking for protection, for education, for the freedom and the future they were promised, Yousafzai, 24, wrote.
We cannot continue to fail them. We have no time to spare.
Yousafzai, long an advocate for girls' education, survived a Pakistani Taliban assassination attempt when she was just 15 years old when the militants shot her in the head in rural northwest Pakistan.
Since then the Oxford graduate has become a global figure promoting education for girls.
The Taliban took effective control of Afghanistan on Sunday when president Ashraf Ghani fled and the insurgents walked into Kabul with no opposition.
It capped a staggeringly fast rout of the country's major cities in just 10 days, following two decades of war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
The Taliban led a pariah regime from 1996 to 2001, infamous for a brutal rule in which girls could not go to school, women were barred from working in jobs that would put them in contact with men, and people were stoned to death.
The recent takeover has triggered fears of renewed oppression, in particular towards women and girls.
I cannot help but be grateful for my life now, wrote Yousafzai.
After graduating from college last year and starting to carve out my own career path, I cannot imagine losing it all -- going back to a life defined for me by men with guns, she continued.
Afghan girls and young women are once again where I have been -- in despair over the thought that they might never be allowed to see a classroom or hold a book again.
On Tuesday a Taliban spokesman indicated the militants would not make the full burqa -- a one-piece overgarment that covers the entire head and body -- compulsory, and sought to dismiss concerns that women would be barred from education.
Women can get education from primary to higher education -- that means university. We have announced this policy at international conferences, the Moscow conference and here at the Doha conference (on Afghanistan), Suhail Shaheen said.
But Yousafzai raised skepticism of that vow.
Given the Taliban's history of violently suppressing women's rights, Afghan women?s fears are real, she wrote.
Already, we are hearing reports of female students being turned away from their universities, female workers from their offices.