Richard Bennett: The biggest fear of Afghan women is the recognition or normalization of the situation by the international community

The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Afghanistan says that women and girls suffered the most under the rule of the Taliban, and this situation is nothing less than gender apartheid, which threatens the common values ​​of the international community.
He emphasized that the mistrust of Afghan women and girls towards the international community can only be resolved with practical measures, not with condemnations and expressions of sympathy.
Richard Bennett, the United Nations special rapporteur for Afghanistan, emphasized that there is despair among the women and girls of Afghanistan and they think that the international community betrayed them.
Bennett said that during the republic, the women’s concern was the return of the Taliban; But now the biggest fear is the recognition or normalization of the situation by the international community.
He added that in his reports to the UN Human Rights Council, he mentioned the sexual harassment of women in Afghanistan.
Bennett, states that the creation of an accountability system in Afghanistan can help the women of the country to achieve justice. “The International Criminal Court can be a good opportunity for accountability through litigation,” he said.
In this meeting, Nasir Ahmad Faiq, head of Afghanistan’s delegation to the United Nations, said that in the last two years, the Taliban took Afghanistan as hostage and created social, economic, and political crises.
He added that the Taliban’s restrictions against women and girls will have a wide negative impact on the entire Afghan society.
The Afghan delegation’s head says more reporting mechanisms are needed to hold the Taliban accountable for clear human rights violations and crimes against humanity.
Meanwhile, in the latest reaction, the spokesperson of the Secretary General of the United Nations emphasized that this organization will stand by the women of Afghanistan until the end.