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The post UN Expert Warns Against Normalizing Taliban De Facto Authorities appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Taliban security personnel stand guard as an Afghan burqa-clad woman (R) walks along a street at a market in the Baharak district of Badakhshan province on February 26, 2024. (Photo credit: WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images On October 30, 2025, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, in his report to the U.N. General Assembly, warned against normalizing Taliban de facto authorities. As he emphasized, “The severity of the situation cannot be overstated. Dismantling the Taliban’s institutionalized system of gender persecution, and addressing the country’s myriad human rights crises, demands urgent, principled and sustained international attention and action – not normalization of the de facto authorities.” The warning comes only a few months after Russia recognized the Taliban, and a few other countries are also exploring this option. The new report comments on the deteriorating human rights situation in Afghanistan, caused mainly by the Taliban’s discriminatory and repressive policies and practices. It reports on the issue of an increasingly entrenched, institutionalized system of gender-based discrimination, oppression and domination of women and girls in the country. As the Special Rapporteur noted, all the wide-ranging restrictions imposed on women and girls remain in effect. It further adds that in recent months, the Taliban has intensified the implementation of the 2024 Law on the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. Among others, in July 2025, the de facto authorities in Kabul arrested dozens of women and girls deemed to be wearing “improper” hijabs. The Taliban engage the general public in the implementation of the laws, with instructions being issued to “shopkeepers, drivers and others not to allow access or provide services to women without a mahram. In some instances, women deemed to be violating Taliban-imposed dress codes were prevented from gaining…

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