UN experts: Taliban curbs on women amount to crime against humanity
23 Jan 2025
ISLAMABAD: A group of independent experts at the United Nations has warned that Taliban restrictions on women’s rights and freedoms in Afghanistan could amount to a “crime against humanity.”
The experts demanded in a joint statement Friday that the Taliban treatment of women and girls “should be investigated as gender persecution” under international law.
Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid on Twitter promptly rejected the allegations as “disrespect to the sacred religion of Islam and against international rules.”
Since returning to power in August 2021, the Taliban hav...
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