UN TALIBAN BRIEFING LIVE | "Gender Apartheid" Exposed: UN Confronts Taliban on Women's Rights

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UN TALIBAN BRIEFING LIVE | "Gender Apartheid" Exposed: UN Confronts Taliban on Women's Rights UNITED NATIONS — Marking exactly five years since the Taliban seized power in Kabul, the United Nations Secretary-General’s spokesperson hosts a critical daily press briefing featuring Susan Ferguson, UN Women’s Special Representative in Afghanistan. Five years into the de facto Taliban rule, UN experts and officials have sounded an urgent alarm over the systemic erasure of women and girls from public life, characterizing the crisis as 'gender apartheid' and a crime against humanity. With over 100 restrictive decrees systematically stripping women of their fundamental rights—including the exclusion of 2.4 million girls from secondary education and newly implemented laws that authorize domestic violence—the UN warns of a dangerous normalization of these extreme restrictions. As humanitarian funding faces a critical 50 percent gap, this virtual press briefing addresses the worsening mental hea

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