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Afghanistan Is Starting Its Fifth Year of Taliban Rule. Here Are 5 Things to Know
UN experts denounce Taliban's gender oppression as a crime against humanity, urging global accountability and highlighting bans on girls' education past grade six, experts said.
- On Thursday, UN human rights experts issued a forceful appeal to reject the Taliban’s four-year rule in Afghanistan, denouncing it as violent and fundamentally oppressive.
- Following the Fall of Kabul in 2021, the Taliban regained control after US and NATO forces withdrew, strengthening its grip.
- Since regaining power, the Taliban has enforced widespread human rights violations, including public executions, corporal punishment, arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, and bans on Afghan women and girls attending school past grade six.
- In response to ongoing abuses, experts praised the ICC’s issuance of arrest warrants for two top Taliban leaders and called for an ‘all-tools’ approach.
- Amid Taliban restrictions, young Afghan women inside Afghanistan opened secret schools and enrolled in online degree courses, while Afghan women in exile ran online book clubs and earned master’s degrees.
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Afghanistan is starting its fifth year of Taliban rule. Here are 5 things to know
The Taliban are starting their fifth year of ruling Afghanistan. They have silenced internal dissent, tightened their control over Afghan life, secured recognition from Russia as the country's official government, and normalized ties across the region.
On the fourth anniversary of the seizure of power by the terrorist Taliban in Afghanistan, Federal Foreign Minister Wadephul pointed out the precarious situation of the people in the country.
Four years after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan, UNESCO pointed to the "systematic disappearance of women in public life" in areas from health to social communication and education.
UN experts urge rejection of Taliban rule and call for accountability
UN human rights experts issued a forceful appeal to the international community on Thursday to reject the Taliban’s four-year rule in Afghanistan, denouncing it as violent, illegitimate, and fundamentally oppressive. Highlighting the systemic brutality, experts described widespread human rights violations, including public executions, corporal punishment, arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, torture, repression of civil space, and targete…
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