Taliban should be prosecuted for denying girls education: Gordon Brown

Former prime minister Gordon Brown is the UN special envoy for global education (Jane Barlow/PA)

Former prime minister Gordon Brown has said the International Criminal Court (ICC) should prosecute Taliban leaders over a crime against humanity for denying Afghan women and girls education and employment.

Mr Brown, the UN’s special envoy for global education, told a virtual UN press conference on the second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan that its rulers are responsible for “the most egregious, vicious and indefensible violation of women’s rights and girls’ rights in the world today”.