UN calls world court to try Taliban for gender discrimination
– UN official urges Muslim-majority countries to persuade clerics in Kandahar to lift ban on girls’ education and women’s employment.
KABUL, Afghanistan – The United Nations has called on the International Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute the Afghan Taliban transitional government for gender discrimination.
The U.N. called the denial of education and jobs to women a crime against humanity.
U.N. Special Representative for Global Education Gordon Brown said that 54 of 80 decrees issued by the Taliban explicitly target women and girls and deny them their rights.
He pointed to recent Taliban bans on women and girls from writing university exams and visiting public places, including cemeteries and other activities.
Brown also said that the Ministry of Women’s Affairs has become the dreaded ministry for spreading virtue and preventing vice.
He urged Muslim-majority countries to persuade clerics in Kandahar to lift the ban on girls’ education and women’s employment.
Brown said Afghanistan cannot succeed as a country if it denies half of its potential citizens the right to education, we can make progress.
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