US EditionAfghanistan’s Taliban have ‘weaponized’ the judicial system to oppress women, UN expert says
The Taliban dismantled legal protections and removed 270 female judges and lawyers, leaving women with fewer ways to report abuse and seek justice, the U.N. investigator said.
- At the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday, UN investigator Richard Bennett reported Taliban rulers have 'weaponized' the legal system to oppress women and girls.
- Following their 2021 takeover, the Taliban dismissed all judges under the previous government, including women judges and prosecutors, replacing them with untrained male loyalists.
- Faced with virtually no rights, women engaging the Taliban court system encounter barriers like mandatory male relatives, driving them toward informal justice mechanisms such as jirgas and shuras.
- Amid mounting isolation, the UN investigator described the Taliban's weaponization of the legal system to oppress women and girls as crimes against humanity, earlier this year.
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Taliban's Legal Repression: Crimes Against Women in Afghanistan
The Taliban's regime has replaced approximately 270 female judges with male counterparts lacking legal training, compelling Afghan women to increasingly rely on informal and male-dominated justice systems. International fora, including the International Criminal Court, are seen as havens for justice.
UN expert claims Taliban’s weaponization of law against women is a crime against humanity
She recounted how, after years of working to uphold women’s rights in court, she is now effectively confined to her home. After losing her job and income, she suffered the deaths of two children and serious health problems, yet even visiting a park for relief was forbidden. “Imagine a woman who has been studying and then working all her life… now denied even what nature grants to every blade of grass—the right to fresh air.”
The UN special rapporteur on human rights said Thursday that Afghanistan’s legal and judicial system is being used as a “weapon” by the brutal Taliban leadership to oppress women and girls, committing crimes against humanity. After coming to power in 2021, the Taliban suspended the 2004 constitution and laws that protected the rights of women and girls. Among other things, they repealed a landmark law that criminalized 22 forms of violence again…
The Taliban have 'weaponized' the judicial system to oppress women
The Taliban's use of the legal and judicial system to oppress women and girls amounts to “crimes against humanity,” according to the U.N. expert.UNITED NATIONS — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have “weaponized” the legal and judicial system to oppress women and girls in what amounts to “crimes against humanity,” the independent U.N. investigator on human rights in the country said.Richard Bennett said in a report to the U.N. General Assembly circu…
Afghan Taliban leaders have instrumentalized the legal and judicial system to oppress women and girls, which constitutes "crimes against humanity," explained the independent United Nations human rights investigator in the country.
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