Afghanistan, Feb. 18 -- In a landmark gathering at the Munich Security Conference 2024, Foreign Ministers from twelve nations-Albania, Andorra, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Mongolia, the Netherlands, and Romania-voiced their profound concerns over the grave human rights violations against women and girls in Afghanistan. In a unified stance, these leaders from the like-minded Foreign Ministers of the Future Foreign Policy (FFP) network urgently called for the cessation of systemic gender persecution by Afghanistan's de facto authorities, actions that could potentially constitute crimes against humanity.

This collective outcry comes amid a distressing surge in the detention of women and girls by the Ta...