{"id":10684,"date":"2022-06-25T06:10:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T06:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=10684"},"modified":"2022-06-25T06:10:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T06:10:37","slug":"kabul-sw-the-united-nations-human-rights-council-to-hold-an-emergency-meeting-on-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/06\/kabul-sw-the-united-nations-human-rights-council-to-hold-an-emergency-meeting-on-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations Human Rights Council to hold an emergency meeting on Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The United Nations Human Rights Council is set to hold an emergency meeting on the situation of women and girls rights in Afghanistan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The council said the meeting is scheduled to take place on July 1, 2022, during the 50th regular session of the Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>France and the European Union have sent a letter to the President of the UN Human Rights Council saying that the &#8220;significant deterioration&#8221; in the human rights situation of women and girls in Afghanistan from August 2021 onwards requires &#8220;urgent attention&#8221; by the Council.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called the situation of women in Afghanistan critical and warned that they were facing &#8220;systematic repression&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The United Nations Human Rights Council is set to hold an emergency meeting on the situation of women and girls rights in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,24,5,4,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-democracy-human-rights","category-women","category-politics_","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":259,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}