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The spokesman for the United Nation's top human rights official says the human rights world of nongovernmental organizations, activists, and organizations such as his own, have been in shock since the Taliban's lightning victory in Afghanistan. Rupert Colville spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, told Tim Sebastian that human rights monitoring would nevertheless continue in Afghanistan and that violations would become apparent.

Colville said it was clear that summary executions, force expulsions, and detentions of former Afghan government officials and their families had taken place since the Taliban took over in August, but said the extent of the violations was unclear.

Colville offered that human rights improvements were not an all or nothing proposal and that setbacks in one area did not preclude improvements elsewhere pointing to efforts in South America on bringing violators to justice as well as improvements for LGBTQ communities around the globe and even the issue of climate change increasingly come to the forefront of rights debates. The wheels of justice roll slowly he told Sebastian from UN offices in Geneva.

"We're still seeing Nazis from World War Two appearing in court."

CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro
01:01 A Desperate call to intervene
02:50 Don't the people of Afghanistan deserve better?
05:45 Human rights monitoring in Afghanistan now
08:35 Acceptance of the Taliban and accountability
09:20 Nazis in court
09:40 ICC and Afghanistan
13:00 Nuremberg trials and ICC
14:45 Impunity: a growth industry in Mali
18:00 War crimes in Yemen
20:00 Climate Change
22:00 UN recognition of the Taliban
25:33 Credits

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