{"id":10810,"date":"2022-07-01T12:32:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T12:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=10810"},"modified":"2022-07-01T12:32:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T12:32:44","slug":"un-holds-urgent-debate-on-afghan-women-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/07\/un-holds-urgent-debate-on-afghan-women-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"UN holds urgent debate on Afghan women rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The United Nations Human Rights Council held urgent debate on the plight of Afghan women at its 50th regular session in Geneva, Switzerland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The international community must intensify pressure on the Taliban <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">to respect women\u2019s rights and provide all necessary resources and support to women\u2019s rights activists and organizations from the country, said <\/span>Richard Bennett, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">&#8220;We are at a crucial moment in time, with the fate of the <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">Afghanistan<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u2019s women &amp; girls hanging in the balance,&#8221; UN Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet told the Human Rights Council at an urgent debate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>France and the European Union have sent a letter to the President of the UN Human Rights Council saying that the \u201csignificant deterioration\u201d in the human rights situation of women and girls in Afghanistan from August 2021 onwards requires \u201curgent attention\u201d 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 \u201csystematic repression\u201d.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The United Nations Human Rights Council held urgent debate on the plight of Afghan women at its 50th regular session in Geneva, Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,200,24,5,8,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soceity","category-democracy-human-rights","category-women","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan"],"views":256,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810","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=10810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}