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No place worse for women than Taliban's Afghanistan, says UN human rights chief

No place worse for women than Taliban's Afghanistan, says UN human rights chief
No Place Worse for Women Than Taliban-Run Afghanistan, Says UN Human Rights Chief | GZERO World

When the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, there was some hope that they would reformed. Now it's clear they have not changed a bit.

And nowhere is that more obvious than in the Taliban's abominable treatment of women.

“There is no country in the world that treats women in the way that Afghanistan does and the Taliban do,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk tells Ian Bremmer on GZERO World, on the ground in Davos.


So, what can we do about it? Türk calls for "a unified stance that this is not part of the international order."

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