During the 16-day campaign against gender-based violence, the US Embassy in Afghanistan said that Afghan women want security and opportunities to build their futures, which is what all women in the world want.

The embassy said that it was committed to supporting Afghan women's access to the right to education and work.

Mario Crifo, Director of Public Affairs for the US Embassy in Afghanistan, announced in a video message that the US mission in Afghanistan supports the fundamental rights of Afghan women. Coinciding with the two-week global campaign against gender-based violence, he stressed that Afghan women want the same rights that other women around the world also want.

The US mission in Afghanistan has plans to increase Afghan women's access to fundamental rights, including education, employment, and civil and political rights, he added. The programmes are designed to empower Afghan women, Crifo noted.

In the video message, he called on audiences to join the campaign to combat gender-based violence and take action to eradicate this type of violence in their communities.

In their more than three years of control over Afghanistan, the Taliban has issued dozens of laws and orders restricting women's rights.

Despite the opposition of international organisations to the restrictions imposed by the Taliban on women, the group continues to violate women's rights and freedoms. The Taliban has called the ban on women's education and employment an internal issue and have announced that they will not allow any organisation or country to interfere in these issues.