Former British PM, Gordon Brown, considers education ban in Afghanistan a crime against humanity

The former British Prime Minister and the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and Chair of the Education Cannot Wait High-Level Steering Group, Gordon Brown has held an on-line press conference to discuss the Taliban ban on education.

In the conference which was launched from Edinburgh, PM Gordon Brown said that “preventing women from going to school is a crime against humanity,” noting that he, “intends to put the issue before the International Criminal Court.”

Brown urged the international community to exert more efforts to enable the Afghan women and girls pursue their education, work and movement; and to put an end to what he described as a racial discrimination against women.

The British former pm proposed five procedures to achieve progress and to pressure Taliban; the most important of which is that the International Criminal Court considers the education ban and gender-based discrimination as crimes against humanity and bring the perpetrators to justice.