KABUL (SW) – The United Nations Human Rights Council is set to hold an emergency meeting on the situation of women and girls rights in Afghanistan.
The council said the meeting is scheduled to take place on July 1, 2022, during the 50th regular session of the Human Rights Council.
A spokesman for the Human Rights Council in Geneva told reporters that France and the European Union had called for the meeting and that other countries had supported it.
France and the European Union have sent a letter to the President of the UN Human Rights Council saying that the “significant deterioration” in the human rights situation of women and girls in Afghanistan from August 2021 onwards requires “urgent attention” by the Council.
Earlier, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called the situation of women in Afghanistan critical and warned that they were facing “systematic repression”.
After the establishment of the Islamic Emirate, many restrictions were imposed on women and girls and they were deprived of their basic rights in Afghanistan.
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