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- The United Nations Human Rights Council questioned an Afghanistan ambassador astir quality authorities violations, peculiarly against women.
- The Taliban now power Afghanistan, but they are not recognized by nan U.N., truthful nan ambassador appointed by nan erstwhile U.S.-backed authorities was questioned instead.
- Since nan Taliban retook power, women and girls person been prohibited from attending precocious schoolhouse aliases college, among different restrictions.
Afghanistan's Taliban look disapproval complete their quality authorities grounds astatine a U.N. gathering connected Monday, pinch Washington accusing them of systematically depriving women and girls of their quality rights.
However, successful an awkward first for nan U.N. Human Rights Council, nan concerned country's existent rulers will not beryllium coming because they are not recognized by nan world body.
Afghanistan will alternatively beryllium represented by an ambassador appointed by nan erstwhile U.S.-backed government, which nan Taliban ousted successful 2021.
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In a bid of questions compiled successful a U.N. archive up of nan review, nan United States asked really authorities would clasp perpetrators to relationship for abuses against civilians, "particularly women and girls who are being systematically deprived of their quality rights"?
It besides called for nan promotion of nan authorities of LGBTQ persons, noting an "escalation of threats and abuse" since nan Taliban takeover.
Displaced Afghan women guidelines waiting to person rate assistance for displaced group successful Kabul, Afghanistan, July 28, 2022. (Reuters/Ali Khara/File Photo)
Britain and Belgium besides raised questions astir the Taliban's curen of women. In total, 76 countries person asked to return nan level astatine nan meeting.
The Taliban opportunity they respect authorities successful statement pinch their mentation of Islamic law.
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Since they swept backmost into power, astir girls person been barred from precocious schoolhouse and women from universities. The Taliban person besides stopped astir Afghan female unit from moving astatine assistance agencies, closed beauty salons, barred women from parks and curtailed recreation for women successful nan absence of a antheral guardian.
Under nan U.N. system, states' quality authorities records are taxable to adjacent reappraisal successful nationalist meetings of nan Geneva-based Human Rights Council, resulting successful a bid of recommendations.
While non-binding, these tin tie scrutiny of policies and adhd to unit for reform. The U.N. Human Rights Council, nan only intergovernmental world assemblage designed to protect human rights worldwide, tin besides instruction investigations whose grounds is sometimes utilized earlier nationalist and world courts.
