GENEVA, Jan 5 — From Afghanistan and Iran to rampant misogynistic vitriol online, the UN rights chief said he was appalled at “systematic” efforts to strip women of their...
GENEVA, Jan 5 — From Afghanistan and Iran to rampant misogynistic vitriol online, the UN rights chief said he was appalled at “systematic” efforts to strip women of their rights, but believed they would ultimately fail.
“I am very concerned about the backsliding and the pushbacks,” said the 58-year-old Austrian, who took over the top UN rights job in October 2022.While misogyny and efforts to halt the march towards gender equality are not new, he warned there was now “a more systematic, more organised way of countering women’s rights”.The starkest example, Turk said, was Afghanistan, where the Taliban last month banned women from working in non-governmental organisations.
In particular, Turk voiced alarm at the use of capital punishment in connection with the protests, with two such executions already carried out. The algorithms such platforms use can “very quickly ensure that hate speech gets amplified in a way that is very dangerous”, he said.
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