UN experts said on Friday that the Taliban regime’s treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan could amount to gender-based persecution and therefore constitute a crime against humanity.
“Violations of the world’s most serious and unacceptable fundamental rights and freedoms against women and girls in Afghanistan have increased rapidly in recent months,” said these independent experts commissioned by the UN, who did not speak. organization on behalf of the UN.
Rapporteur Richard Bennett stressed that these latest restrictions, such as the ban on visiting parks in Kabul, as well as past discriminatory measures “must be investigated as gender-based harassment (considered a crime against humanity) to be prosecuted under international law”. On the human rights situation in Afghanistan.
Bennett has also partnered with members of the anti-discrimination working group against women and girls. They call on the Taliban, who came back to power in August 2021, to respect Afghanistan’s human rights commitments.
On the other hand, the High Commissioner for Human Rights demanded that “flogging, which is a vile punishment, be stopped immediately”.
A state official said 14 people, three women and 11 men, were flogged on Wednesday at the behest of an Afghan court after being found guilty of “moral crimes” and theft.
The Taliban imposed a very strict interpretation of Islam and introduced increasingly stricter rules.
Girls’ high schools were closed. Women workers are excluded from most government jobs.
Women also cannot go out of the city alone, they have to cover up and cannot go to parks, gardens, gyms and public restrooms.
source: Noticias
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