Taliban’s curbs on ladies’s freedom might quantity to crimes in opposition to humanity: UN rights knowledgeable

Speaking on the matter of girls’s standing in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, the UN particular rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan mentioned the Taliban’s concentrating on of girls and women is against the law in opposition to humanity.

Geneva,UPDATED: Nov 26, 2022 08:07 IST

Discriminatory Taliban measures “should be investigated as gender persecution with a view to prosecutions under international law”, the specialists mentioned. (Photo: Reuters)

By Agence France-Presse: Taliban restrictions on the freedoms of girls and women might quantity to against the law in opposition to humanity, the UN particular rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan mentioned Friday.

Richard Bennett and different UN rights specialists mentioned the Taliban’s concentrating on of girls and women deepen “flagrant violations of their human rights and freedoms that are already the most draconian globally and may amount to gender persecution — a crime against humanity”.

Most ladies who work for the federal government have misplaced their jobs — or are being paid a pittance to remain at house — because the Taliban returned to energy in August 2021.

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Afghan ladies have additionally been barred from travelling and not using a male family member and should cowl up with a burqa or hijab when exterior the house.

This month the Taliban barred ladies from getting into parks, funfairs, gyms and public baths.

Schools for teenage women have additionally been shuttered throughout many of the nation.

“In recent months, violations of women and girls’ fundamental rights and freedoms in Afghanistan, already the most severe and unacceptable in the world, have sharply increased,” the UN specialists mentioned in an announcement.

“Confining women to their homes is tantamount to imprisonment and is likely leading to increased levels of domestic violence and mental health challenges.”

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Women human rights defenders peacefully protesting the restrictions have for months been more and more focused, overwhelmed, and arrested, they added.

Discriminatory Taliban measures “should be investigated as gender persecution with a view to prosecutions under international law”, the specialists mentioned.

UN specialists don’t converse for the United Nations however are mandated to report their findings to the worldwide physique.

They urged the Taliban to respect ladies’s elementary rights and the worldwide group to demand the restoration of girls’s freedoms and rights.

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The UN Human Rights Office mentioned individually it was “appalled” by the flogging of 11 males and three ladies in Afghanistan on Wednesday and known as for “this abhorrent form of punishment to cease immediately”.

They had been flogged after being discovered responsible of theft and “moral crimes”, an official mentioned in Logar province.

The lashings had been the primary to be confirmed because the Taliban’s supreme chief ordered judges this month to completely implement sharia regulation.

“Corporal punishment is a human rights violation under international law,” UN Rights Office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani mentioned.

“We are also concerned that arrests, court hearings, sentencing and punishments are often all carried out on the same day. All people have the right to be treated with dignity and equality.”

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Nov 26, 2022