GENEVA (17 January 2022) -Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls, a group of UN human rights experts* said today. The experts reiterated their alarm expressed since August 2021 at a series of restrictive measures that have been introduced since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, particularly those concerning women and girls. “Taken together, these policies constitute a collective punishment of women and girls, grounded on gender-based bias and harmful practices,” the experts said.
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 17 January 2022. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.
