KABUL: An Afghan ladies’s group on Friday hailed a call by the Worldwide Legal Court docket to arrest Taliban leaders for his or her persecution of ladies. The Worldwide Legal Court docket’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan introduced Thursday he had requested arrest warrants for 2 prime Taliban officers, together with the chief Hibatullah Akhundzada. Since they took again management of the nation in 2021, the Taliban have barred ladies from jobs, most public areas and training past sixth grade. In an announcement, the Afghan Girls’s Motion for Justice and Consciousness celebrated the ICC resolution and referred to as it a “nice historic achievement.” “We take into account this achievement an emblem of the energy and can of Afghan ladies and imagine this step will begin a brand new chapter of accountability and justice within the nation,” the group mentioned. The Taliban authorities has but to touch upon the courtroom’s transfer. Additionally Friday, the UN mission in Afghanistan mentioned it was a “tragedy and travesty” that ladies stay disadvantaged of training. “It has been 1,225 days – quickly to be 4 years – since authorities imposed a ban that forestalls ladies above the age of 12 from attending faculty,” mentioned the top of the United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan Roza Otunbayeva. “It’s a travesty and tragedy that hundreds of thousands of Afghan ladies have been stripped of their proper to training.” Afghanistan is the one nation on this planet that explicitly bars ladies and ladies from all ranges of training, mentioned Otunbayeva.
