Bennett’s report: Taliban’s ‘protection’ of women’s rights serves as tool of ‘subjugation’

Bennett’s report: Taliban’s ‘protection’ of women’s rights serves as tool of ‘subjugation’

The U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, has stated in a report to be presented next week to the U.N. Human Rights Council that the Taliban’s claim to be “protecting” the rights and dignity of women and girls instead serves “as a mechanism for subjugation rather than safety—one that asserts male dominance and effectively erases women and girls from public life.” “Justice and protection under t…