According to the G7, the Taliban’s treatment of women in Afghanistan could be a “crime against humanity.”

The Taliban’s treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan could be a “crime against humanity,” G7 foreign ministers said Thursday, calling for the decision to ban them from universities to be reversed.

“Gender-based persecution may constitute a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute, Afghanistan is part of it,” the foreign ministers said in a statement referring to the International Criminal Court (ICC) based in Hague.

“Policy Mr. Taliban policies to remove women from public life will have implications for how our countries interact with Taliban”added the ministers of the richest countries after a virtual meeting.

The Taliban government Afghanistanwho vowed to wield power less dogmatically than in his previous term (1996-2001) when he took office last year, drew worldwide criticism with his decision this week to ban higher education for women.

Earlier, in March, the Islamists took girls away from public schools.

Solutions that, according to G7 should be canceled “without further delay”.

“To the Stone Age”

German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock, whose country is chairing the G7considered that the decision to ban university education for women was another step “into the stone age”.

G7 It unites the UK, Canada, Italy, France, Germany, Japan and the USA.

Outside this forum, Turkey and Iran have joined in the condemnation.

“This ban is neither Islamic nor human (…) Let’s hope, God willing, that they will abandon this decision,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters.

In Tehran, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani expressed hope that the Afghan Taliban would “quickly open the way for the resumption of girls’ education at all levels.”

The ban was announced in Afghanistan Less than three months after thousands of young women passed university entrance exams in a country ruled Taliban from August 2021. (According to AFP)

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