Webinar Afganistan Press Release by JCI

The last few weeks, the world has been shocked by the actions of the Taliban who have managed to control and seize power in Afghanistan on Sunday, August 15, 2021. The armed group spread throughout the capital and entered the presidential palace. To strengthen public confidence in the Taliban group, the Taliban promised to run a different government from the Taliban in the past, because the Taliban in the past was famous for various cases of massacres of civilians and limiting the role of women and was famous for the slogan Islam Huwa al-Hall (Islam is the solution). The Taliban vowed to create social order and solve corruption cases in a country torn apart by civil war and pledged to protect human and women’s rights while ensuring that life will return to normal.

Due to this issue, the Juridical Council of International (JCI) Faculty of Law, Universitas Islam Indonesia successfully held a General Lecture by the theme “Illegal Return of Power by the Taliban According to The Enforcement of Human Rights for Women in Afghanistan”, on Thursday (02/09/2021). Presenting Dr. Suparman Marzuki, S.H., M.Sc. as a speaker who presented about: 1) women’s rights under the future Taliban government and whether these rights conflict with existing women’s human rights as regulated in the United Nations; 2) examples of the government’s actions to uphold human rights for women in Afghanistan; 3) provide his personal views related to the path or solution that can be taken from the point of view of being a fellow human being.

The General Lecture was opened by Dodik Setiawan Nur Heriyanto, S.H., M.H., LLM., Ph.D., as the Secretary of the International Undergraduate Study Program in Law, Universitas Islam Indonesia. After the opening, it was continued with the delivery of material moderated by Salza Farikah Aquina, a student of the International Law Study Program, Faculty of Law, Universitas Islam Indonesia. The implementation of this General Lecture lasts approximately 2 (two) hours and is attended by participants which is open to the public. This General Lecture was very interesting because there were 46 participants and 8 people asked questions. Some of the questioners asked about how to save women from the violence committed in Afghanistan, in addition there were also those who asked about our responsibility as Indonesian citizens to help with this problem, and what the responsibility of the state that perpetrated violence against women was.

by : Tazkia Nasution.