RASC News Agency: Nasir Ahmad Faiq, Afghanistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, has urged the UN Security Council to officially recognize the Taliban’s gender apartheid as a crime against humanity. Speaking at a recent Security Council session focused on peace and women’s rights, Faiq argued that the Taliban’s policies do not represent Islamic values or Afghanistan culture. On Saturday, October 26, he posted his remarks on the social platform X, condemning the Taliban for violating Afghanistan’s international human rights obligations.
Faiq underscored the severe humanitarian crisis Afghanistani women and girls face under Taliban-imposed gender apartheid. Citing Afghanistan’s prior advancements in women’s rights, he emphasized that the Taliban have issued at least 90 oppressive decrees aimed at stripping women of their rights. “These issues transcend gender,” Faiq noted, “and are creating national crises with far-reaching impacts on Afghanistan’s economic future.”
The speech further pressed the international community to abandon any stance of neutrality in response to the Taliban’s systemic abuse of Afghanistani women’s rights. Faiq called upon the United Nations to formally designate the Taliban’s actions as gender apartheid and recognize it as a crime against humanity. His appeal included critical demands for global action: intensifying pressure on the Taliban, recognizing gender apartheid, ensuring inclusive peace in Afghanistan, and directing financial resources to empower Afghanistani women.
Faiq’s plea comes on the heels of his recent address to the Third Committee at the UN General Assembly’s 79th session, where he highlighted Afghanistan’s dire situation under Taliban rule and insisted that it demands decisive, principled, and unified action from the international community.
