UNITED NATIONS - Any agreement between the Afghan government and Taliban should include a clear commitment to protect womens human rights, A UN committee said on Friday. The Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women(CEDAW), which consists of 23 experts on womens rights, voiced deep concern at the absence of clear strategies to protect womens rights in the process of the discussions leading to negotiations with representatives of the Taliban, which severely restricted womens freedom before its ouster in 2001, including the right of girls to schooling. While welcoming the current commitment and efforts of the Afghan government and its international allies to help secure a peaceful, prosperous and democratic future, it urged the Afghan government and its allies to ensure that women representatives are included in the upcoming peace and development dialogues and negotiations with the Taliban. The Committee also regretted the exclusion of Afghan women from the high decision-making level of an international conference on the war-torn country in London last month. Afghan women, who constitute the majority of the Afghan population, must be full and equal participants in decision-making, at all levels, in the process of peace-building, reconciliation, reconstruction and development of their country, it said in a news release. Their voices and views, as well as capacities, are fundamental and necessary for the sustainable establishment of a prosperous and peaceful Afghanistan, based on the rule of law, democracy, justice, human rights and gender equality. The Committee called on the Afghan government to give special attention to a critical review of all discriminatory laws and provisions, drawing particular attention to the much-criticized new personal status law of the Shiite minorities, which is especially discriminatory against women, urging it to modify or repeal them. The Committee monitors implementation of the UN Convention on the CEDAW, which has been ratified by 186 countries.