Category: Human Rights
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Malala Fund: Afghan Girls Deprived of Education for the Fifth Year
The Malala Fund has criticized the continuation of educational restrictions against women and girls in Afghanistan for the fifth consecutive year and has called for an end to these restrictions. On Thursday September 17, the 26th of Sunbula, the fund said on its X page that Afghan girls have now entered the twentieth decade of…
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UNICEF: Escalating Conflict in Yemen Has Plunged More Than 12 Million Children Into a Deeper Crisis
Following the resumption of conflict in parts of Yemen, more than 104,000 people, including over 57,000 children, have been displaced from their homes in just the past two weeks. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), announcing these figures on Wednesday, 25 Sunbula, said that since September 3, at least 9 children have died, 12 have…
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UNICEF: More Than 2.6 Million Girls in Afghanistan Deprived of Secondary Education
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has announced that more than 2.6 million girls in Afghanistan have been deprived of secondary education over the past five years. UNICEF said in a message posted on its X page on Thursday, 26 Sunbula, that the Taliban must lift educational restrictions and provide the ground for the immediate…
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Taliban Foreign Ministry Spokesman: People’s Demands Have Not Been Met Over the Past Five Years
Abdul Qahar Balkhi, spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says the group’s regime has made achievements in some areas beyond its initial plans over the past five years, but economic problems, unemployment, and international isolation have prevented the Afghan people’s demands from being fully met. Balkhi said in an interview with CBS on…
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Panama: Removing Women from Afghan Society Is Incompatible with Religious Values
Panama’s representative to the UN Security Council, emphasizing the rights of Afghan women, said that women’s and girls’ access to education, employment, and presence in social spheres does not contradict the culture and religious beliefs of the people of Afghanistan. On Wednesday, September 16 (25 Sunbula), at the meeting, referring to the position of the…
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UN Security Council to Review Afghanistan Situation Today
The United Nations Security Council is holding a meeting to review the latest developments in Afghanistan — a meeting that will examine the human rights situation, restrictions on women, terrorist threats, and security tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 16 (25 Sunbula), and Roza Otunbayeva, head of UNAMA,…
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UN: Number of Prisoners in Taliban Prisons Reaches 30,300
António Guterres, UN Secretary-General, said in his latest report on Afghanistan that, according to Taliban prison administration statistics, the number of prisoners in the group’s prisons reached 30,300 as of July 20. The report, published on Wednesday, September 16 (25 Sunbula), states that the Taliban prison administration announced on May 26 that the group’s Supreme…
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Nearly 100 Civil Society Organizations Call for Extension of Afghanistan Human Rights Rapporteur’s Mandate
Nearly 100 Afghan civil society organizations, along with a number of international human rights bodies, have called on member states of the UN Human Rights Council to fully extend the mandate of the Council’s Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan. In a letter published on Saturday, September 19, following the 63rd session of the Human Rights Council,…
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Taliban’s Morality Police Spokesman: Women in Afghanistan Have Gained Unprecedented Rights
Saif ul-Islam Khyber, spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, in response to international criticism regarding the situation of women in Afghanistan, has claimed that women in this country now enjoy rights that he says are unprecedented in Afghanistan’s history. The ministry’s spokesman on Sunday, September 20 (Sunbula 29),…
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Five Employees of Women’s and Children’s Rights Research Organization Released from Taliban Custody After 68 Days
Zarqa Yaftali, the head of the Women’s and Children’s Rights Research Organization, says that five employees of this organization have been released from Taliban custody after 68 days of detention. Ms. Yaftali, in a statement, said that Sultan Ali Rahimi, Hamed Siddiqi, Sayem Hazim, Qadir Hamidi, and Bismillah were released from Taliban prison on Tuesday,…
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