E/2000/27 E/CN.6/2000/9 Afghanistan, particularly in areas under the control of the Taliban; 2. Also condemns the continued restrictions on women’s access to health care and the systematic violation of the human rights of women in Afghanistan, including the restrictions on access to education and to employment outside the home, freedom of movement, and freedom from intimidation, harassment and violence, which has a serious detrimental effect on the well-being of Afghan women and the children in their care; 3. Urges the Taliban and other Afghan parties to recognize, protect, promote and act in accordance with all human rights and fundamental freedoms, regardless of gender, ethnicity or religion, in accordance with international human rights instruments, and to respect international humanitarian law; 4. Urges all the Afghan parties, in particular the Taliban, to bring to an end without delay all human rights violations against women and girls and to take urgent measures to ensure: (a) The repeal of all legislative and other measures that discriminate against women and girls and those which impede the realization of all their human rights; (b) The effective participation of women in civil, cultural, economic, political and social life throughout the country; (c) Respect for the equal right of women to work and their reintegration in employment; (d) The equal right of women and girls to education without discrimination, the reopening of schools and the admission of women and girls to all levels of education; (e) Respect for the right of women to security of person and that those responsible for physical attacks on women are brought to justice; (f) women; Respect for freedom of movement for (g) Respect for women’s and girls’ effective and equal access to the facilities necessary to protect their right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; 2 5. Encourages the continuing efforts of the United Nations, international and non-governmental organizations and donors to ensure that all United Nations-assisted programmes in Afghanistan are formulated and coordinated in such a way as to promote and ensure the participation of women in those programmes and that women benefit equally with men from such programmes; 6. Appeals to all States and to the international community to ensure that all humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan, in conformity with the Strategic Framework for Afghanistan, is based on the principle of non-discrimination, integrates a gender perspective, and actively attempts to promote the participation of both women and men and to promote peace and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; 7. Urges States to continue to give special attention to the promotion and protection of the human rights of women in Afghanistan and to mainstream a gender perspective in all aspects of their policies and actions related to Afghanistan; 8. Welcomes the establishment of the positions of Gender Adviser and Human Rights Adviser at the United Nations Office of the Resident Coordinator for Afghanistan, in order to ensure more effective consideration and implementation of human rights and gender concerns in all United Nations programmes within Afghanistan, taking into account the recommendations contained in the report of the interagency gender mission to Afghanistan conducted by the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women in November 1997; 9. Notes the report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences on her mission to Afghanistan, from 1 to 13 September 1999; 10. Urges the Secretary-General to ensure that all United Nations activities in Afghanistan are carried out according to the principle of non-discrimination against women and girls, and that a gender perspective and special attention to the human rights of women and girls are fully incorporated into the work of the civil affairs unit established within the United Nations Special Mission to Afghanistan, including the training and selection of staff, and that efforts be made to enhance the role of women in preventive diplomacy, peacemaking and peacekeeping;