The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Afghanistan sounds the alarm: “The severe abolition of women’s and girls’ rights, reprisals against opponents and critics and a Taliban crackdown on freedom of expression amount to a downturn in the towards authoritarianism,” Richard Bennett said Monday at a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
The mandate he holds was established by the Geneva-based council after the radical Islamist Taliban took power in Afghanistan in August 2021.
As early as late July, an Amnesty International report painted a disastrous picture since the Islamists came to power. Afghan women continue to be systematically oppressed and discriminated against. Girls and women would be punished for the smallest offences. “Every aspect of daily life — whether they can go to school, whether and how they can leave the house” is also severely restricted, the report said.
Source: Krone
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