In #Afghanistan millions live in fear of the Taliban terrorists who have taken over the country.
Here in Geneva, the #UNHRC meets shortly on Afghanistan to adopt one of its weakest-ever resolutions.
Better to scrap the session than send message of appeasement to the #Taliban.
Here in Geneva, the #UNHRC meets shortly on Afghanistan to adopt one of its weakest-ever resolutions.
Better to scrap the session than send message of appeasement to the #Taliban.
https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1429805417962614793
The United Nations was founded to prevent war. For years we appealed to the Council to hold an urgent session on the war in Afghanistan.
Yet even as 241,000 people were killed, including 71,000 civilians, this UN Human Rights Council refused to hold a single session to try and help Afghanistan’s victims.
Not a single commission of inquiry to hold terrorists and their state sponsors to account.
Not a single commission of inquiry to hold terrorists and their state sponsors to account.
Even as this Human Rights Council has held as many as nine special sessions criticizing another country (for defending itself from pro-Taliban Islamist misogynist terrorists), it has never even once met on Afghanistan, or adopted a single resolution to condemn the Taliban.
Today we have to ask: If the UNHRC had held to account the Taliban when they lashed women for going to work or for speaking on the phone to a man, and if the UNHRC had called on Pakistan to stop aiding and abetting the Taliban, how many thousands of lives could have been saved?
Today’s special session is an abomination. Why is there nowhere in the draft resolution any condemnation—or even mention—of the Taliban?
Why no condemnation of the Taliban’s latest offensive that directly targeted civilians, causing 400,000 women & children to flee their homes?
Why no condemnation of the Taliban’s latest offensive that directly targeted civilians, causing 400,000 women & children to flee their homes?
Why does today’s UNHRC draft resolution on Afghanistan fail to condemn, or even mention, the Taliban’s recent assassination of human rights activists and journalists, their summary executions, arbitrary detentions, mass executions of civilians, and subjugation of women and girls?
Why instead is the West blamed for “military interventions,” while Iran and Pakistan are praised?
Why is there no mention that if the Taliban government is recognized by the UN, these misogynists stand to inherit Afghanistan’s seat on the UN women’s rights commission?
Why is there no mention that if the Taliban government is recognized by the UN, these misogynists stand to inherit Afghanistan’s seat on the UN women’s rights commission?
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