Members of the Taliban participate in a rally to mark the third anniversary of the fall of Kabul, in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 14, 2024. Canada has removed 19 Afghan nationals to Afghanistan in 2024, as the federal government has continued to raise concerns over the Taliban's human-rights record.
Canada's border guards sent 19 Afghans who failed their refugee claims back to Afghanistan in 2023 — even as the federal government continued to denounce the human rights record of the Taliban regime that took power three years ago.Members of the Taliban participate in a rally to mark the third anniversary of the fall of Kabul in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 14, 2024.
The CBSA said the 19 who failed their refugee claims left Canada "voluntarily," though it did not initially explain what it meant by that term. "Canada should match other gender-responsive nations by granting refugee status to all Afghan women and girls asylum seekers on its territory, given the pervasive gender persecution they face under the Taliban," Richard Bennett, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, said in a media statement he released after a working visit here last month.
Of the 82 removed since 2014, it said, 25 were female. The agency would not break down its numbers by gender year over year, again citing privacy considerations.
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