It isn’t that difficult to see why the UNHRC would dodge putting the spotlight on the Taliban. For starters, the UN Human Rights Council includes some of the worst violators of human rights, such as Pakistan, China, Cuba and Venezuela. That speaks for its credibility and efficacy. Pakistan is particularly significant here, since Pakistan and the Taliban share a history of collaboration. Cheers and celebrations of the Taliban victory are all over Pakistan.
Right up to the day that the news broke that the Taliban had taken over Afghanistan, reports continued that the Taliban was continuing to enjoy safe haven in Pakistan. Yet despite Pakistan’s reinforcement of the Taliban, the emergency session of the UN Human Rights Council was “held at the request
“‘Shameful’: Draft U.N. Human Rights Resolution on Afghanistan Doesn’t Mention Taliban,” by John Hayward, Breitbart, August 24, 2021:
The U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) held a special session on Afghanistan on Tuesday and remarkably failed to condemn the Taliban, document its abuses, or create a commission for further inquiry.
The draft UNHRC resolution, reportedly written by Pakistan, did not mention the Taliban by name.
The resolution expressed “deep concern for the displacement in Afghanistan that has caused many Afghan civilians and persons of other nationalities to take refuge in neighboring and other countries,” reaffirmed “the importance of combating terrorism while fully respecting human rights in Afghanistan,” and reiterated the U.N.’s “unwavering commitment to the rights of women and girls,” but did not hold the Taliban responsible for offenses against any of those principles.
The UNHRC resolution declared that “sustainable peace can be achieved only through a comprehensive and inclusive Afghan-led and Afghan-owned political process, with the full and meaningful participation of all Afghans, including persons belonging to ethnic and religious communities and women,” but did not acknowledge that the Taliban just conquered the entire country by military force and deposed the U.N.-recognized legitimate government.
The resolution concluded by calling on “all parties” to “respect their obligations under international law, including international human rights law and international humanitarian law,” including the “right to liberty of movement and freedom to leave the country.” The Taliban banned Afghan citizens from entering the Kabul international airport a few hours after the UNHRC resolution was written.
Human rights activists were stunned and horrified by the outcome of the UNHRC session. Amnesty International (AI) called it “shameful” and dismissed the resolution produced by the session as “weak.”“The U.N. Human Rights Council special session has failed to deliver a credible response to the escalating human rights crisis in Afghanistan. Member states have ignored clear and consistent calls by civil society and U.N. actors for a robust monitoring mechanism,” said AI Secretary General Agnes Callamard.
Callmard pointed to AI’s own documentation of a Taliban ethnic massacre i
n July as evidence of the Islamist regime’s brutality…..
Elizabeth Lawson says
My response to this information concerning the UN and their potential sanctions against the Taliban in Afghanistan, is much bunkum! The UN is a disgraceful and unacceptable body comprised of, and headed by individuals with more blood on their hands than any one Taliban. We NEED to clean house! Why ask our ‘human rights’ folks in the UN to march to the beat of a different drummer in their consideration of the Taliban? These people are ALL the same – hence there will be NO sanctions nor demands for humane treatment of entrapped citizens in Afghanistan – nothing will change – and the ‘delegates’ in the disunited nations ( Cuba, China, Russia) will continue to sit the their high paying ( paid principally by the US) cosy chairs while this Afghan tragedy writhes to its horrifying end.
PMK says
Are members of the UNHRC really that obtuse? How can they not understand that human rights are not (and never will be) part of the Muslim culture? Equal rights for women and non-Muslims? If they want this for Afghanistan, why not demand the same for all members of the OIC? Have they read the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights? All ‘rights’ delineated in the document are not universal. Indeed, they are constrained by Sharia Law.
Article 10:
slam is the religion of unspoiled nature. It is prohibited to exercise any form of compulsion on man or to exploit his poverty or ignorance in order to convert him to another religion or to atheism.
(Conversion is one-way.)
Article 24:
All the rights and freedoms stipulated in this Declaration are subject to the Islamic Shari’ah.
Article 25:
The Islamic Shari’ah is the only source of reference for the explanation or clarification of any of the articles of this Declaration.
gravenimage says
This resolution was written by Pakistan, so none of this should surprise.
peter says
UNRHC under the control of muslim nations is like Fox guarding the hen house!
gravenimage says
Draft UN human rights resolution on Afghanistan fails to even mention Taliban
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The UN refusing to name the problem is par for the course at this point.
OLD GUY says
UN human rights council is a joke. When the member countries are the main violators of human rights, you can’t expect them to be honest and fair.
gravenimage says
So true, OLD GUY. Council members have included Libya, Sudan, China, Pakistan, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Algeria, Mali, Qatar, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, and Mauritania. This last has a population that is 17% *enslaved*. The whole thing is a sick joke.