UN Secretary-General António Guterres has voiced support for the demand from countries and organizations to immediately lift the Taliban’s discriminatory restrictions on women. Guterres said, “What is happening in Afghanistan compares to some of the most egregious systems of oppression in modern history.”
Foreign ministers of Germany, Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands have warned that if the situation for women and girls does not improve, they will take the Taliban to the International Court of Justice.