The Taliban on Thursday dismissed accusations of gender discrimination and human rights violations as “absurd”, regardless of 4 international locations pledging to carry Afghanistan‘s rulers accountable underneath worldwide legislation for his or her remedy of girls and women.
Australia, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands are set to provoke authorized proceedings towards the Taliban for violating the UN Conference on the Elimination of All Types of Discrimination towards Girls, to which Afghanistan is a celebration.The initiative was launched on Wednesday in the course of the UN Common Meeting in New York.
Since seizing energy in 2021, the Taliban have imposed extreme restrictions on girls and women, barring them from schooling past sixth grade, many public areas, and most jobs. In August, the vice and advantage ministry issued legal guidelines banning girls from exhibiting their faces in public and prohibiting them from elevating their voices.
Greater than 20 international locations have expressed assist for the proposed authorized motion, condemning the “gross and systematic human rights violations and abuses in Afghanistan, notably the gender-based discrimination towards girls and women.” They highlighted that Afghanistan is accountable underneath worldwide legislation for its ongoing violations of the Conference on the Elimination of All Types of Discrimination towards Girls and said that they don’t politically acknowledge the Taliban because the professional leaders of the Afghan inhabitants. The international locations additionally famous that “Afghanistan’s failure to meet its human rights treaty obligations is a key impediment to normalisation of relations.”
Taliban deputy spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat claimed that human rights are protected in Afghanistan and that no person faces discrimination. He accused a number of “fugitive (Afghan) girls” of spreading propaganda and misrepresenting the state of affairs, calling the accusations of human rights violations and gender discrimination “absurd.”
The Taliban rejected all criticism of their insurance policies, particularly these affecting girls and women, describing it as interference and sustaining that their actions align with their interpretation of Islamic legislation, or Sharia.
