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Afghanistan: The Taliban's War On Women (2023)

The Taliban's War On Women

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Legal assessment of the Taliban's crime of gender persecution & why those fleeing persecution must be considered refugees

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Reports and publications

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Afghanistan

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Taliban’s treatment of women and girls should be considered a crime against humanity of ‘gender persecution’. This Report provides legal assessment of why those fleeing persecution must be presumptively considered refugees.

‘Women and girls from Afghanistan arriving in the UK are refugees, and this country must respect their right to asylum’ - Sacha Deshmukh

‘This is a war against women’ - Agnès Callamard