Human Rights Watch called for the International Cricket Council on the side of Afghan women crickets and “not on the side of the Taliban”.
International NGOs wrote a letter to the administrative body 7. March calls for Afghanistan to be suspended from cricket in response to the erosion of women’s rights in the state under the control of Taliban.
All women’s sports are effectively forbidden in mode, and most female cricket team living in exile in Australia.
This puts Afghanistan in direct contradiction with the owners of the ICC as a male team, it is allowed to continue playing cricket, which is recently recently in the trophy of ICC champions.
Director of HRV Global Initiatives, Minki Borova, wrote a letter HCC chair Jai Shah and talked Ski Sports News about the last development.
She called on the ICC to deal with members of the Afghan women’s team, as the first step, saying, “They do not give women that are affected by exclusion from the sport in the table.
“These are consultations of stakeholders and the involvement of affected people is one of the basic rules of international human rights. The International Olympic Committee adopted a Framework for Human Rights and Leading of UN principles for business and human rights.
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“They also happened before, they had gender non-discrimination as part of the Olympic Charter. So the ICC completely violated the Olympic rules. Human Rights Watch also sent it, and we sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee.
“ICC position cannot continue. It is not fair to Afghan women and girls who deserve the right to compete.
“As we enter the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, it fully puts it in the international system.
“I want to be clear, they are Taliban who excludes women and girls, not the ICC.
“But ICC needs to stand on the side of the Taliban, but on the side of athletes with a woman’s cricket.
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“It’s the only way forward. There are a lot of steps that they could do to do it. But they should first deal with women who were affected because of that and who took huge risks to continue playing crickets.”
In January, Afghanistan’s exiled women’s crickets were first represented by the Taliban again received control, which contains in a historical exhibition match against cricket without boundaries, in what they hope for them to start a new trip for them.
Boicott vs Suspension
In the ICC letter, HRV called for Afghanistan to be suspended by cricket. This is the first time that this call was made, and the others have previously invited boycott.
Firooza Amiri, Afghan cricket living in a prognine talking Ski Sports News Through Afghan’s Male Champions of England, said women do not support boycott.
Worden said that there was a big difference between boycott and suspension, stating that cricket board (ACB) violated the Rules of ICC and that is why it should face a penalty.
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Richard Gould believes that England boycotts would be “counterproductive” in helping their priority to helping people in the country
“The boycott is almost a cold war tool. I think of that, for example, the boycott of the Olympics in the Soviet Union in 1980. years or a boycott of Soviet blocks in 1984. Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles”.
“The boycott would be if foreign England did not agree to play Afghanistan as a consequence. So we do not advocate for a boycott. We are advocating that the rules apply equally.
“ACB does not meet the MKS non-discrimination rules. It is unhappy. It is a choice of ACB to not allow women and girls to play sports. It puts them in violation of ICC.
“Perhaps most importantly, he sets them in violation of the Olympic Charter, which says that sports is human right. Now the Olympics is an important element, because cricket will be part of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles,”
Ski Sports News He contacted the MKS to comment after this interview.