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Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, warned on Thursday that Afghanistan is experiencing “the most extreme and systematic assault on gender equality of our time.” In a report to the UN General Assembly, he urged the international community to resist normalizing Taliban rule and instead take urgent, principled action to defend human rights, especially for women and girls.
Speaking in stark terms, Bennett said the global community must not allow normalization of the Taliban’s rule while egregious abuses continue. “The severity of the situation cannot be overstated,” he said. “Dismantling the Taliban’s institutionalised system of gender persecution, and addressing the country’s myriad human rights crises, demands urgent, principled and sustained international attention and action – not normalisation of the de facto authorities.”
The report presented to the General Assembly outlines a worsening situation for women and girls, who have been effectively erased
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