UN envoy says ICC should prosecute Taliban for denying girls education

Gordon Brown told a virtual UN press conference on the second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan on Tuesday that its rulers are responsible for 'the most egregious, vicious and indefensible violation of women's rights and girls' rights in the world today.

Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, holds a news conference at UN headquarters, on Sept. 16, 2016. AP PHOTOHe also called for monitoring and reporting on abuses and violations of the rights of women and girls, sanctions against those directly responsible for the bans including by the United States and United Kingdom, and the release of those imprisoned for defending women's and girls' rights.

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