UN Experts Warn Against Normalising Taliban Rule as Afghan Rights Crisis Deepens
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Five years after the Taliban took Kabul, the need for emergency aid has grown, but aid from the outside world has dwindled.
The fundamentalist group consolidates a regime of repression against freedoms, especially those of women, in a five-year period, almost without opposition, and plunges the country into misery. In spite of the abuses, the West takes steps to normalize it.
UN Experts Warn Against Taliban Normalization, Citing Five Years of Rights Abuses
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – Independent United Nations experts on Thursday warned governments against any moves to normalize relations with the Taliban, citing systematic human rights violations, particularly against women and girls, as the group marks five years in power. In a joint statement, the experts, including Richard Bennett, the Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, said there should be no normalization of the Taliban de facto aut…
UN experts warn against normalizing Taliban rule five years after takeover
A group of independent United Nations human rights experts warned governments against normalizing relations with the Taliban, saying five years of Taliban rule had deepened repression in Afghanistan and produced no grounds for expecting moderation. In a statement marking five years since the Taliban returned to power, the experts said governments should make no move toward normalization until there was “demonstrated, measurable and independently…
UN human rights experts, including Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan, have warned against normalising relations with the Taliban, stressing that no steps should be taken to normalise relations with the group until tangible progress has been made on human rights. “No steps should be taken to normalise relations with the Taliban de facto authorities, including by receiving diplomats or holding meetings with them in capitals…
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