Women are prohibited from speaking in public or showing their faces outside their home
by an alliance of four countries – the Netherlands, Germany, Australia and Canada – in a direct legal challenge to its oppressive policy on the rights of women and girls.
In the latest round of “vice and virtue” laws approved last month by supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, women are prohibited from speaking in public or showing their faces outside their homes – restrictions condemned by the UN as “intolerable”.The legal action will be the first time that any country has been taken to the International Court of Justice in The Hague in a case asserting women’s rights – and the first time it has heard a case alleging gender discrimination.
“The result today is that women and girls are almost completely excluded from public life”, Mr Veldkamp said. “We cannot accept this. It cannot become a new normal.” If the arbitration process is ignored by the Taliban – which most international legal experts believe it will be – then the court may consider the case and ultimately hand down a substantial verdict, although it has no power to enforce that ruling.
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