Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the International Cricket Council (ICC) to hang Afghanistan’s association in answer to the assault on women’s rights.
Human Rights Watch made the appeal to ICC through an email on February 3 and complete it community on March 7.
“We are writing at this interval to need the International Cricket Council (ICC) to hang Taliban-run Afghanistan from ICC membership, and from contributing in international cricket, till women and girls can after again contribute in teaching and sport in the country,” the email lecturing ICC Chief Jay Shah said.
The email departed on to say that the ICC’s anti-discrimination policy for international cricket federations that it is committed to confirming that wherever cricket is played, it can be enjoyed by all members regardless of their dispersed backgrounds.
It pointed out that the strategy also attempts to ensure all members can enjoy sport without being subjected to threatening conduct on the basis of – among other factors – sex, gender, marital status and/or maternity status.
The email also maintained that while payments to Afghanistan’s Women’s team were postponed in 2021, the country’s men’s team continues to receive financial and logistical support, superficially in breaking of the ICC’s own anti-discrimination rules.
“By not permitting women and girls to play cricket, and not allowing a national team for women and girls to compete internationally, the Afghanistan Cricket Board is fading to stand by this Anti-Discrimination Policy,” Human Rights Watch said.
Human Rights Watch requested for a timely reply from the ICC to a number of questions, counting what steps the governing body is winning towards developing a human rights policy, why it hasn’t postponed the ACB from playing international cricket until women and girls have admission to education and sport and, would it be prepared to recognize the Afghanistan women’s national team in deportee, permitting it to train, compete and receive ICC financial support.
“The International Cricket Council required survey in the stages of other game chief organizations, such as the International Olympic Committee, by occupation on the Taliban to grip Afghan women and girls in sport, and committing to a human rights casing work,” the email definite.
Meanwhile the Taliban repaid to control in Afghanistan in 2021, women have been required to obey progressively defensive choice of laws excluding them from most parts of public life, having sport. Shortly before that, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) had decided to agreement 25 women’s players, maximum of whom now live in outcast in Australia.
In July last year, previous members of the Afghanistan women’s national team, no longer recognized as such by the country’s Taliban leaders, noticeable to the ICC asking to be recognized as a migratory team.
England and Australia have chosen not to play Afghanistan in common games, while approving to face them at ICC actions, with ECB chief executive Richard Gould calling for a “coordinated, ICC-led, response” moderately than independent action from different countries.
