- Afghan people gather along a road as they wait to board a US military aircraft to leave the country, at a military airport in Kabul on August 20, 2021 days after the Taliban’s military takeover of Afghanistan.)
The United Nations human rights chief on Monday criticized the Taliban’s record since seizing power in Afghanistan, noting that stated commitments by the group did not match realities on the ground such as the status of women, EkohotBlog reports.
Michelle Bachelet expressed to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, that Afghanistan was in a “new and perilous phase” with many women and members of ethnic groups and religious communities deeply concerned for their rights.
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She stressed further that “Importantly, and in contradiction to assurances that the Taliban would uphold women’s rights, over the past three weeks, women have instead been progressively excluded from the public sphere.”
Bachelet frowned at the composition of the Taliban’s new government, hammering on the absence of women and its dominance by ethnic Pashtun.
She pointed out other broken pledges on granting amnesty to former civil servants and security officers linked to the previous government and prohibiting house-to-house searches.
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