KABUL: An Afghan girls’s group on Friday hailed a choice by the Worldwide Felony Courtroom to arrest Taliban leaders for his or her persecution of ladies. The Worldwide Felony Courtroom’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 girls from jobs, most public areas and training past sixth grade.
In an announcement, the Afghan Ladies’s Motion for Justice and Consciousness celebrated the ICC resolution and referred to as it a “nice historic achievement.”
“We contemplate this achievement a logo of the power and can of Afghan girls and imagine this step will begin a brand new chapter of accountability and justice within the nation,” the group stated.
The Taliban authorities has but to touch upon the court docket’s transfer.
Additionally Friday, the UN mission in Afghanistan stated it was a “tragedy and travesty” that women stay disadvantaged of training.
“It has been 1,225 days – quickly to be 4 years – since authorities imposed a ban that forestalls women above the age of 12 from attending college,” stated the pinnacle of the United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan Roza Otunbayeva. “It’s a travesty and tragedy that hundreds of thousands of Afghan women have been stripped of their proper to training.”
Afghanistan is the one nation on the planet that explicitly bars girls and women from all ranges of training, stated Otunbayeva.
