Afghan women chant slogans in protest against the closure of universities to women by the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan, December 22, 2022Afghan women chant slogans in protest against the closure of universities to women by the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan, December 22, 2022could amount to a crime against humanity, according to a U.N. report presented on Monday at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
In a report covering July to December 2022, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, found that the Taliban’s treatment of women and girls “may amount to gender persecution, a crime against humanity”. “It may amount to the international crime of gender persecution for which the authorities can be held accountable.” A spokesperson for the Taliban-run information ministry did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
Bennett says the Human Rights Council should send a strong message to the Taliban that the “abysmal treatment of women and girls is intolerable and unjustifiable on any ground, including religion”.
Rich that coming from the UN under whose watch millions of women were killed in Afghanistan and Iraq by the US and its allies during their illegal invasions of those countries.
Why don't you cover the abuse of Palestinian and Kashmiri women by the illegal occupiers?
In any other civilised country it would be....