"Human rights in Afghanistan are in a state of collapse ... as well as the dissolution of the country's Independent Human Rights Commission, were elements of the "systematic erosion of the ...

The Taliban’s 2021 return to power brought a slew of new constraints on women and girls that the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Afghanistan Richard Bennett calls an ...

Women, simultaneously, have no means of seeking justice. The Taliban have abolished the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission. The commission investigated and reported about alleged ...

He was the head of the human rights component of the U.N. assistance mission in Afghanistan and a long-term adviser to the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission beginning in 2003.

The U.N. mission in Afghanistan urged the country’s Taliban rulers on Tuesday to embrace global human rights obligations for the protection and prosperity of future generations. The mission’s ...

For me and my colleagues – who since 1998 have worked in securing forensic evidence of these types of crimes in Afghanistan ... In March, the human rights branch of the United Nations also launched an ...