Afghan women launched a strong appeal to the United Nations on Monday for real international action to end the “gender apartheid” established in their country since the return to power of the Taliban. “Today, human rights in Afghanistan do not exist,” Mahbouba Seraj told the UN Human Rights Council in …
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Taliban celebrate on Monday in Kabul, near the former American embassy, the first anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan, a year marked by a sharp regression in women’s rights and a deep humanitarian crisis. Islamist fundamentalists, on August 15, 2021, seized the capital Kabul without a fight, after …
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