No going to the gym. It is forbidden to work in any international organization. No travel without male consent. It is forbidden to study at the university …
Since returning to power in Afghanistan in August 2022, the Taliban has waged a crusade against Afghan women, relying on Islamic law to justify its restrictive measures.
A month after they came to power, they said they would respect the rights of women and girls, but so far they have restricted their public freedoms and education.
All these prohibitions have been considered by Amnesty International, along with the International Commission of Jurists, as a crime against humanity, and therefore, the International Criminal Court will have to play a role in prosecuting the Taliban. “Increasingly stifling restrictions and the ongoing violent suppression of peaceful protest reflect the existence of a single system of systematic repression,” the text says, according to the provisions of Article 7 of the Rome Statute, to amount to a crime against humanity. Crimes against women.
In a report published on Friday, Taliban war on women. The crime against humanity of sexual persecution in Afghanistan, Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists have presented a legal analysis detailing the reasons for the “severe restrictions” imposed by the Taliban on human rights. Women and girls In Afghanistan they could constitute a crime against humanity in the form of gender-based persecution. The report covers the period from August 2021, when the fundamentalists took over the country after the chaotic withdrawal of US forces and allied countries, to January 2023.
“a system of oppression and persecution”
The text also talks about the use of imprisonment, enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment as an unprecedented form of violence by fundamentalists. “Afghan women and girls are victims of the crime against humanity of gendered oppression. The gravity of the crime requires a much stronger international response than has been observed so far. There is only one acceptable outcome: the system of gendered oppression and oppression must be dismantled.” Agnes Callamard, Special Rapporteur at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
The analysis is based on a body of evidence collected by Amnesty International, civil society organizations and UN authorities, and provides a legal analysis of why Afghan women and girls should be considered refugees in need of protection.
“The Taliban’s campaign of persecution is targeting women and girls across the country on the basis of gender and may affect every woman and girl in Afghanistan,” the analysis said.
The Taliban’s discriminatory restrictions on women and girls violate human rights guarantees contained in several international treaties to which Afghanistan is a party.
In the report, they called for “a radical and urgent change in the international community’s approach” to the criminal behavior of the Taliban, which prevents women and girls in Afghanistan from exercising most human rights.
