He urged governments, including the UK and US, to follow the EU and sanction those who are directly responsible for these decisions to discriminate against girls and women in Afghanistan. And the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission has been dissolved.īrown called for monitoring surveillance and reporting of the gross abuses and the violations of rights under UN conventions that have been broken: the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights the convention on discrimination against women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Ministry of Women’s Affairs has become the administration for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice. Just recently, the Taliban regime issued additional bans on women’s and girls’ participation in university exams, and on visits to public places, including cemeteries. Over 50 of around 80 edicts issued by the Taliban explicitly target women and girls and dismantle their rights. Meanwhile, he called on the international community to “step up its efforts to restore the freedom of girls to go to school, women to university, to work in public places, and to enjoy basic liberties,” and to challenge “what many have called gender apartheid against girls and women.” “The International Criminal Court should recognize this gender discrimination as a crime against humanity and investigate it with a view to the arraignment and prosecution of those responsible,” Brown said. He said the denial of education to Afghan girls and employment to Afghan women is gender discrimination and it is time to declare it a crime against humanity, and for the prosecutors of the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into the repression decreed by the Taliban regime. Worldwide support for the cause of Afghan women and girls has been insufficient to move the Taliban to reverse course.īrown called on the international community to mobilize in greater numbers and “with renewed strength of purpose” to condemn the violation of Afghan women’s rights. This has amounted to what many have called a system of “gender apartheid.” Since they took control of the country in August 2021, the Taliban have issued edicts imposing widespread restrictions on the rights of women and girls, including their freedom of movement, attire and behavior, access to education, work, health and justice. To that end, he has urged Muslim-majority countries’ leaders to support a delegation to the Taliban clerics in Kandahar to seek to persuade them to remove the ban on girls’ education and women’s employment “which has no basis in the Qur’an or the Islamic religion.”īrown said that the Taliban ideology should not be regarded as a mere difference of opinion but “a difference of interpretation that has got to be contested all the time.” ![]() The ideological religious claims made by the Taliban have got to be “contested and directly contested,” UN Envoy for Global Education and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday told Arab News. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will be at the Johannesburg summit on Aug. The Kremlin said last week Putin would dial into the BRICS summit by video call. The Russian president, who will not attend a summit of the BRICS nations in August in person, said on Saturday he did not think that the visit would be more important than him staying in Russia. No one wants a direct clash of NATO and Russia's forces in Syria, Putin also said on Saturday. He said Ukraine had lost 415 tanks and 1,300 armoured vehicles since June 4, but the numbers cited by Putin could not be verified. He also said that it was hard to implement a cease-fire when the Ukrainian army was on the offensive and that there were no serious changes and no intensification of actions on the Ukrainian front for now. ![]() He was speaking at a press conference after meeting African leaders in St. SAINT PETERSBURG: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that Russia did not reject talks on Ukraine and that an African peace initiative as well as a Chinese one could be a basis for peace.
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