The United Nations has warned that the Taliban’s treatment of women falls under the category of gender inequality.
According to the international news agency, the plight of women and girls in Afghanistan was prominently presented at the meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
The speakers also accused the Taliban government of committing systematic gender persecution.
The UN Special Representative for Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, told the Council that the Taliban regime is based on serious, systematic and institutionalized discrimination against women and girls.
According to the UN Council, the Taliban’s style of governance has also raised concerns that they may be guilty of gender discrimination.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, also expressed concerns that the Taliban government in Afghanistan has abolished the most basic principles of human rights, especially for women and girls.
In a joint report to the Council UN rights experts Bennett and Dorothy Estrada Tank said that the plight of Afghan women is among the worst in the world.
The report urged the international community and the United Nations to pay more attention to the issue and take steps to bring relief to Afghan women.
UN human rights experts have also warned the Taliban that their treatment of women is based on gender discrimination.
Addressing the meeting, the executive director of Afghan NGO Rawadri, Shahrzad Akbar, called on the international community to propose the death penalty for the perpetrators of discrimination on the basis of sex, color and race as a crime against humanity.
Addressing the meeting, the Pakistani delegate said that he supported the OIC’s position on the issue, which had declared the Taliban’s ban on women’s education and employment unacceptable and called for a review of the ban.
The Pakistani delegate added that the Taliban Authorities should reconsider their decisions and provide equal access to education and employment to all citizens in accordance with Afghanistan’s international human rights obligations.
Along with this, the Pakistani delegate also requested the international community to consider the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
Although the human rights situation in Afghanistan is a cause for concern, its citizens also find themselves caught up in a humanitarian crisis that requires global attention.
The Pakistani delegate added that 97 percent of Afghans live in extreme poverty and more than 20 million face acute hunger.
Sadly, we are seeing a decline in humanitarian aid. He further said that only Pakistan is the only country that has highlighted the issue of humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan while all other countries including major powers have focused only on the plight of Afghan women. It should be noted that the Taliban