The United Nations’ Special Rapporteurs have called for investigating the issue of subjugation of women’s rights in Afghanistan by the Taliban as gender persecution after reports of women being subject to lashings.
In Afghanistan, the violation of women’s fundamental rights, which are already “severe and unacceptable,” have risen in recent months, the experts said according to a Nov. 25 U.N. news release. The Special Rapporteurs insisted that such gender persecution, which can be prosecuted under international law, is a crime against humanity.
Before the U.S. war in Afghanistan following the Sept. 11 terror attacks, lashings for punishments in public were common under the then-Taliban rule. Stoning and public execution were also common….