UN Security Council Takes Aim at Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON - Members of the United Nations Security Council, except Russia and China, on Tuesday issued a resounding condemnation of the Taliban's relentless persecution of women in Afghanistan, calling on all member states to take urgent action to hold the country's leadership accountable.

The U.N. Secretary-General's Special Representative for Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, said since seizing power in 2021, the