Overview

• The UN resolution condemned the Taliban’s systematic oppression of women and demanded the reversal of policies restricting their rights.
• The ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber determined there are reasonable grounds to suspect crimes against humanity in the regime’s gender-based policies since August 2021.
• Arrest warrants were issued for supreme leader Hibatullah Akunzada and a second senior official for their alleged roles in directing women’s rights abuses.
• Key evidence cited by the ICC includes the suspension of secondary education for girls and the imposition of stringent movement curbs on women.
• The Taliban interim government rejected the warrants as anti-Islamic and denounced them as hostile to the Muslim faith.