{"id":23152,"date":"2026-06-22T09:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/23152\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T09:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:28:10","slug":"richard-bennett-meeting-with-the-taliban-in-brussels-is-an-insult-to-afghan-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/23152\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Bennett: Meeting with the Taliban in Brussels Is an Insult to Afghan Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, has said that meeting with the Taliban in Brussels would be an insult to Afghans, especially women.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, June 22, Richard Bennett wrote on X that respect for human rights and refugee law is essential.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett also said he supports a statement by Volker T\u00fcrk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressing regret over the European Union\u2019s new regulations that allow accelerated deportations.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that Afghan asylum seekers must not be returned to unsafe conditions.<\/p>\n<p>However, in recent weeks, reports have emerged that a Taliban delegation was invited by the European Union for talks regarding the deportation of Afghan refugees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, has said that meeting with the Taliban&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[2532,18,125,2219,9418,13980,13981,2593],"class_list":["post-23152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-afghanistan","tag-brussels","tag-european-union","tag-human-rights","tag-taliban","tag-un","tag-un-high-commissioner","tag-women"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116793056048194486","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}