New York –
Special messenger United Nations (UN) for global education, Gordon Brown, called International Criminal Court (ICC) to put the leaders on trial Taliban on suspicion crimes against humanity for cutting off access to education and employment for girls and women Afghanistan.
As reported Associated PressWednesday (16/8/2023), Brown’s call was made in a UN virtual press conference which was held on Tuesday (15/8) local time, on the second anniversary of the Taliban taking power in Afghanistan, after the Western-backed civilian government collapsed.
Brown stressed in her statement that the Taliban leaders were responsible for “the most egregious, cruel and inexcusable violations of the rights of girls and women in the world today”.
Brown, who was also the former British Prime Minister (PM) for the period 2007-2010, said he had sent a legal opinion to ICC prosecutor Karim Khan showing that cutting off access to education and work constituted ‘gender discrimination’.
“Gender discrimination must be considered a crime against humanity, and must be tried by the International Criminal Court,” said Brown.
The Taliban took power in Kabul in August 2021, in the final weeks of US and NATO troops pulling out of Afghanistan after 20 years of fighting there.
Much like their previous administration in Afghanistan from 1996-2001, the Taliban have gradually reinstated their radical interpretation of Islamic law, banning girls from attending school from grade six onwards and banning women from working, being in public spaces, gyms and more recently. recently banned beauty salons.
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2023-08-16 11:01:45
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