UN Rights Council Calls on Taliban to End Restrictions on Afghan Women and Girls
Bareen Media – The UN Human Rights Council has called on the Taliban to repeal all policies and measures that violate the fundamental rights and freedoms of women and girls in Afghanistan.
The resolution was adopted without a vote during the Council’s session in Geneva, with support from 37 countries.
The Council expressed deep concern over what it described as the Taliban’s severe, widespread and systematic repression of women and girls.
It said the institutionalisation of discrimination, segregation and the exclusion of women and girls from society should “shake the conscience of humanity.”
The Council called on the Taliban to end restrictions affecting women’s and girls’ access to education, work, peaceful assembly and other fundamental freedoms.
It also urged the international community to place human rights and fundamental freedoms at the centre of its engagement with the Taliban.
The resolution was presented by 37 countries, including European states, Canada and Chile, and the Council extended the mandate of UN Special Rapporteur Richard Bennett for another year.
