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Afghan lawyer urges Security Council to hold Taliban accountable for abuses against women and girls
Summary
Azadaraz Mohammed told the U.N. Security Council that since 2021 the Taliban have enacted measures amounting to "gender apartheid," and called for renewed international mandates and legal accountability through the ICC, ICJ or recognition of gender apartheid as an international crime.
Azadaraz Mohammed, a lawyer from Afghanistan and co‑founder of the Hamdali campaign, told the United Nations Security Council on a briefing that the Taliban have waged an "unrelenting campaign to erase women and girls from public life" and called on the international community to pursue legal accountability.
Mohammed said the measures since 2021 include bans that have left "women are suffocating inside their homes, banned from even looking outside their windows" and that "their voices are silenced. And their very existence is criminalized. This is a system of…
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