Women have criticized the lack of female presence in the meetings discussing the situation of Afghanistan.

Some of these women who were interviewed by TOLOnews said that women’s representatives’ presence is necessary in the meetings related to Afghan conditions.

“The women who are in Afghanistan should be invited to this meeting because the main suffering of the women in Afghanistan today is felt by these women. They feel the pain better than the women abroad,” said Hamir Farhangyar, who has worked in the field of human rights and female education for several decades.

Farhangyar stressed that the actions of other countries toward the issues of women in Afghanistan have not been beneficial.

Heather Barr, associate director of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch, referring to the meeting of the US-Afghan interim government in Doha, said that the human rights issue should be at the top of the agenda.

“It is urgently important that human rights be at the top of the agenda for those meetings. Now we trust that would be the case given that is the core mandate for Rina Amiri,” she said.

Meanwhile, the Islamic Emirate said that there is no problem with the presence of women’s representatives in the general meetings on Afghanistan.

“If it is a legal discussion, or a discussion about women and their rights, under such conditions, we think about how to facilitate a Sharia and Islamic environment. But we see that some of our senior officials are meeting women again and again” said Zabiullah Mujahid, Islamic Emirate’s spokesman.

 “The women want a meeting in which the decisive decisions should be taken for the destiny of women and people of Afghanistan,” said Suraya Paikan, a female defender.

This comes as the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Twitter that women and girls “everywhere deserve to live with dignity and respect.”

“We will never give up fighting to ensure their fundamental human rights are upheld everywhere,” he said.