BERLIN — The Taliban’s remedy of ladies and ladies in Afghanistan might quantity to “a crime against humanity,” G7 international ministers mentioned Thursday, demanding the ban on girls attending college be reversed.
“Gender persecution may amount to a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute, to which Afghanistan is a state party,” the ministers mentioned in an announcement, referring to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
“Taliban policies designed to erase women from public life will have consequences for how our countries engage with the Taliban.”
Taliban authorities on Tuesday ordered a nationwide ban on college schooling for females, because the hardline Islamists proceed to crush Afghan girls’s proper to schooling and freedom.
Despite promising a softer rule once they seized energy final yr, the Taliban have ratcheted up restrictions on all points of ladies’s lives, ignoring worldwide outrage. — Agence France-Presse
