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Los crímenes de género de los talibanes contra la humanidad

Aug 11, 2023 Gordon Brown

EDIMBURGO – La persecución por motivos de género es un serio crimen contra la humanidad. Muchos miembros del régimen talibán en Afganistán son responsables de haber creado un apartheid de género, al negar a niñas y mujeres el acceso a educación; y por eso es posible y necesario hacerles rendir cuentas conforme al Estatuto de Roma de la Corte Penal Internacional.

En el segundo aniversario de la reconquista del poder por los talibanes, el fiscal general de la CPI debe tomar medidas legales contra los individuos responsables de acciones que constituyen las violaciones de derechos humanos más evidentes e inaceptables, movidas por un afán de venganza, que hoy se estén realizando en forma sistemática y con saña contra mujeres y niñas. Si se permite su continuidad sin una oposición internacional sostenida, estos abusos sentarán un precedente aterrador para otros regímenes donde la discriminación contra las mujeres sigue siendo endémica.

Es el mejor momento para hacerlo: tras dos años de represión creciente, parece haber divisiones en el régimen de Kabul, que se apresuró a implementar una serie de edictos religiosos dictados por el clero desde Kandahar. A las acciones que emprenda la CPI por su cuenta, la comunidad internacional puede complementarlas con una serie de iniciativas que sumen presión al régimen para que cambie de rumbo.

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Dawood Mamoon Aug 12, 2023

Sir Gordon Brown,

Very justified concern about the status of girls and women under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan as you put most eloquently and take up the case with a lot of concern and compassion. Your article is a comprehensive effort for readers esspecially in the developed world to really understand the issue in detail as you present hard facts that is beyond rhetoric as can be noted in your following paragraph.

'All of these options should be on the table, because the need to assist Afghan girls has become more urgent than ever. Of the 80 edicts issued by the Taliban between August 2021 and last January, 54 target women and dismantle their rights. Recently, the regime issued additional bans on women and girls’ participation in university medical exams, visits to cemeteries, and other activities. The Ministry of Women’s Affairs has become the feared Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, and the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission has been dissolved, while legislation guaranteeing gender equality has been invalidated.'

It is unbelievable that there would be a country in the world that would prevent girls and women from seeking education. Well, it is not a rhetoric that Taliban donot want anything with the modern world other than most modern weaponry. However I understand the context of your highly expert article and the issues you have highlighted because this time around Taliban are making an effort towards some kind of political governance. It is a matter of great concern that Taliban's governance is making women economic, social and political outcasts and they claim to follow a religion where the holy book Quran starts from the verse that means seek education.

I wonder whether women are being targeted for state repression by Taliban to seek rents from the developed world. If that is the case, your article becomes far more important and your words of wisdom should be taken into account for any foreign policy decision that is meant to develop any economic, political, diplomatic and social relationships in the region.

I am wondering what those millions of women are doing right now isolated in their homes while opportunity to walk around their neighborhoods, educate themselves in schools and universities and talk to each other and laugh with each other has all been taken away. And the biggest injustice is that this has happened after 2 decades of some level of freedom.

In simple words, Taliban has taken Afghan women hostage to their political designs. If they were conservative as Taliban represent conservative Islam, gender segregation was the most that could have been expected of them. It is even prevalent in most traditional societies including Pakistan. However, taking the right of women to even step outside their homes and study and mingle with other women of the neighborhood can be equated to a imprisonment and life sentence for just being from different gender.

What kind of future would that bring to Afghani nation? Sir Gordon Brown, you are the most sincere friend to Afghani people as you prove in this highly relevant and technical article saying all the right things. More power to you for trying to address the great injustice that is happening to girls and women under Taliban regime.
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