(MENAFN) After the country's governing Taliban forcibly dispersed a women's demonstration, the EU stated on Sunday that it was "particularly concerned" about the deteriorating situation for women and girls in Afghanistan.
On Saturday, Taliban fighters attacked demonstrators participating in a women's "bread, labor, and freedom" march in Kabul while firing shots in the air. Women were pursued into surrounding stores where they were shot with rifle butts.
The violence brought attention to the Taliban's tightening restrictions, particularly on women, since they regained power of Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, one year ago.
"The EU is particularly concerned by the fate of Afghan women and girls who have seen their freedoms, rights and access to basic services such as education being systematically denied," the office of EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, stated in an announcement.
"The EU reiterates that Afghanistan must adhere to the international treaties to which it is a State Party, including by upholding and protecting economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights, and allow for full, equal and meaningful representation and participation of all Afghans in the governing of the country."
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