Human rights in Afghanistan are in a state of collapse,UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk

STORY: UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk: Human rights in Afghanistan are in a state of collapse

TRT: 02:56

SOURCE: UNTV / OHCHR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: English/NATS
ASPECT RATIO: 16:9
DATELINE: 12-09-2023 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

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Exterior shot: Palais des Nations, Geneva.
Wide shot: wide shot room 20
Soundbite (English)— Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, (OHCHR): “Humanrights in Afghanistan are in a state of collapse, acutely affecting the lives of millions of women, men, girls and boys.”
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Soundbite (English)— Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, (OHCHR): “The shocking level of oppression of Afghan women and girls is immeasurably cruel. Afghanistan has set a devastating precedent as the only country in the world where women and girls are denied access to secondary and higher education. Restrictions are becoming increasingly severe, quelling women and girls’ fundamental freedoms, effectively confining them to the four walls of their homes to invisibility .”
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Soundbite (English)— Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, (OHCHR): “No parks, gyms, or public baths. No beauty salons. No travelling more than 78km without a mahram, or male chaperone. No working for domestic or international NGOs, and now, the United Nations. This last ban flies in the face of the UN Charter and its fundamental principle of equality, compromising both human rights and the humanitarian response. Women and girls deemed non-compliant with this litany of rules face arbitrary arrest and detention, harassment and even physical violence, as do their male relatives.”
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Soundbite (English)— Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, (OHCHR): “Any prospect of a stable, prosperous future for Afghanistan rests on the participation of half of the population. Denying women and girls’ rights to participate in daily and public life not only denies them their human rights, it denies Afghanistan the benefit of the contributions they have to offer.”
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Soundbite (English)— Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, (OHCHR): “Today’s media environment is one where journalists are forbidden to publish content deemed contrary to their religious interpretation. Where women journalists must cover their faces while broadcasting. And where the screening of films or soap operas that feature women actors are banned, as are foreign films deemed contrary to Afghan or their interpretation of Islamic values.”
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Human rights in Afghanistan are in a state of collapse,UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk

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