BRUSSELS, Oct 2 (Reuter) - A European commissioner on Wednesday urged the European Union to be more vocal over the human rights situation in Afghanistan under the new Taleban militia regime. "When they take the floor at the U.N. General Assembly I hope that the Union will make a strong statement on Afghanistan just to make clear where we stand," Europe's Commissioner for humanitarian aid Emma Bonino told reporters. "I am convinced that when you are facing mass violations of human rights at the end there is a mass humanitarian crisis." Bonino said the world had been surprisingly quiet over the fate of Afghan's people, especially minorities and women. After the Islamic Taleban militia took Kabul last week it said it would impose strict fundamentalist limits on women -- making them stop working, stay at home and wear veils in public. Men would have to wear beards. "The silence of the international community worries me...The reaction of the U.S. has been surprisingly mild," she said, accusing them of double stan

dards saying if Iran or Sudan had acted in the same way they would have been condemned. "Particularly I'm appealing to the women in power in the international community," she said. She told Reuters on Tuesday she was astonished that declarations about human rights made at the fourth United Nations world conference on women in Beijing were not now being followed up with action. EU foreign ministers made no statement on Afghanistan when they met in Luxembourg on Tuesday. Bonino said the only statement was from Sweden. Bonino said she was worried how 10,000 women widowed during Afghanistan's troubles would survive if forbidden from work. The Taleban promise to govern Afghanistan, three-quarters of which they now control, according to Islamic Sharia law, including punishments such as death for murder, stoning for adultery and amputation for theft.