Baby Hina was born at a hospital in Sulmona, in the central Italian region of Abruzzo.

Her 32-year-old mother had been transferred to a military base in the nearby town of Roccaraso upon her arrival in Italy.

The woman’s husband was reportedly executed by the Taliban in front of her shortly before she was airlifted out of the Afghan capital.

The mother and daughter are reportedly doing well, despite the unusual circumstances.

“It was not an easy birth, above all because we had to coordinate with the cultural mediator,” hospital personnel said.

“But in the end we were all moved.”

The news came as Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Thursday called for the protection of women’s rights in Afghanistan following the resurgence of the Taliban, at a G20 conference on women’s empowerment.

“We must not delude ourselves: Afghan girls and women are on the brink of losing freedom and dignity and of returning to the dismal conditions in which they found themselves two decades ago,” Draghi said at the conference hosted by Italy.

In a statement, Draghi said women in Afghanistan “risk becoming once again second-class citizens, who face violence and are discriminated against systematically just because of their gender”.

“The G20 must do all it can to ensure that Afghan women preserve their fundamental freedoms and basic rights, especially the right to education,” he added.

“Progress made over the past 20 years must be preserved.”

The takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban has sparked fears of a return to the Islamic fundamentalist group’s brutal regime of the 1990s that saw women confined to their homes and punishments including stoning to death for those accused of adultery.