Last statements of the International Committee
The International Committee to Defend Afghan Women is formed


We, the delegates to the International Working Women’s Conference, held on 29 October 2022…
We, the delegates to the International Working Women’s Conference, held on 29 October 2022, having received the message of the Spontaneous Afghan Women’s Movement addressed to our conference, decide to form an International Committee for the Defence of Afghan Women who are demonstrating against the regime. The message describes the persecution of Afghan women by the Taliban regime as well as the protests against the regime by women targeted by these attacks. We hereby decide to make the message of our Afghan sisters widely known in our respective countries,in particular, the six demands that appear in the conclusion of this…
Message of the “Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women”to the International Conference of Working Women (October 28, 2022, Kabul)
Today, Afghan women live under the most misogynistic regime, where they are deprived of all their human and civil rights. For this reason, Afghan women activists formed their own protest movement after the Taliban rule in August 2021, which has been organizing women’s protests in the cities of Kabul, Jalalabad, Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif and Bamiyan with the slogans (bread, work, freedom). When women protest and demonstrate against the violation of their rights, the Taliban police brutally suppress them, beat them and threaten them with prison and death. […] Taliban intelligence identifies women activists and participants in demonstrations, arrests them during demonstrations,…
The International Committee to Defend Afghan Women was formed by…
ALGERIA: HAFSI Nadia. BELGIUM; AIME Emilie,teacher; DARMONT Eléonore, student; K. Olga, social worker. BENIN: GNONLONFOUN Liliane, trade unionist. CHILE: LAPERTE Marcela, Independent Movement for the Rights of the People (MIDP) ; FRANCE: KEISER Christel, POID national secretary; BAHLOUL Maïa, student, FJR (Federation of Young Revolutionaries); TIZZI Djemilla, trade unionist and POID member; MAS Nicole, member of the POID national bureau; ADOUE Camille, student, FJR member; LISCOËT Catherine, retired, member of the POID national bureau; DUPUY Martine, national secretary of the POID; MICHAUD Isabelle, CGT trade unionist; TEMPEREAU Lucile, young worker and POID member; SAUVAGE Jeanne, professor and researcher; FAURY Stéphanie,…