RASC News Agency: Frishta Abbasi, a researcher of Afghanistan affairs at Human Rights Watch, said at the 54th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Genoa that the Taliban group has been systematically violating the rights of women and girls for two years and has excluded them from public life.
She has stated in her statement that some of the actions of the Taliban group against Afghanistani women and girls are human crimes based on gender harassment.
According to Abbasi, the Taliban group arbitrarily arrests and tortures women’s rights activists.
She added that: “According to Human Rights Watch, some of these abuses are crimes against humanity based on sexual harassment.”
Abbasi also added that media, journalists and other critics have also been suppressed by the Taliban group.
Abbasi added, during these two years, the Taliban group has illegally executed some LGBT people, government employees and former members of the security forces.
She said that currently Afghanistan is experiencing one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world and two-thirds of its population needs urgent help. According to Abbasi, the Taliban group is responsible for the worsening of this situation.
Human Rights Watch’s Afghanistan affairs researcher has called for more action to end long-standing immunity for serious international crimes.
She considered the activity of the special rapporteur of human rights to be necessary and demanded the extension of her mission.
According to heer, the human rights crisis in Afghanistan is a devastating crisis and it is becoming more intense every day, and urgent measures need to be taken in this area.
The first day of the 54th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council was held yesterday, focusing on Afghanistan.
Richard Bennett, the UN special rapporteur on human rights, also spoke at this meeting.
