The U.N. rights chief says the Taliban’s repressive control over women and girls is unparalleled and will jeopardize Afghanistan's future. Volker Türk said new morality laws that ban women’s voices and bare faces in public, along with sweeping bans on education and most jobs, are outrageous and amount to systematic gender persecution.
ISLAM ABAD — The Taliban ’s repressive control over women and girls in Afghanistan is unparalleled and will jeopardize the country’s future, the U.N. rights chief warned Monday.“I shudder to think what is next for the women and girls of Afghanistan ,” Türk told the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. The Taliban were not immediately available for comment.
Taliban policies are propelling Afghanistan further down a path of isolation, pain and hardship, he added.in aid for nearly 24 million people in need. The Taliban takeover drove millions into poverty and hunger after foreign aid stopped almost overnight. The situation for children was especially devastating, with 12.4 million children in desperate need, Türk said, but a massive shortfall in funding was “sharply undercutting” the response by the U.N. and its partners.
In his first address since being barred from Afghanistan, Bennett said the morality laws reinforced the Taliban’s institutionalized system of sex and gender discrimination, segregation and oppression and affected almost the entire population.Bennett said he had talked to Afghans in several provinces who had described a visible increase in the presence of morality inspectors as well as tightening restrictions, in particular on people’s freedom of movement.
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