Isolating women isolates Kabul, UN tells Taliban.

UNITED NATIONS -- In a clear message to Kabul's de facto rulers, a UN delegation has warned that isolating women will also isolate Afghanistan and as the country faces a terrible humanitarian crisis, it cannot afford to do so.

The high-level UN delegation that visited Afghanistan this week, also urged the international community to support Afghan women.

UN legal experts, in another statement, described the 'collapse of the rule of law and judicial independence' in Afghanistan as 'a human rights catastrophe'. 'We are gravely concerned by the extreme exclusion of women from the legal system,' said the UN experts, while calling for 'urgent support' to the people of Afghanistan.

The delegation that visited Kabul included Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, the Executive Director of UN Women Sima Bahous, and the Assistant Secretary-General for UN political, peace building and peace operations...