UN Describes Worsening Afghanistan Rights Crisis

Click to expand Image A woman at the site of a suicide attack on an education center claimed by a group affiliated with the Islamic State, in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 1, 2022. © 2022 Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo The latest report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, is comprehensive and devastating. The special rapporteur catalogues widespread, serious abuses, noting that the Taliban authorities have “normalized” the systematic violation of the rights of women and girls. He also suggests that their “discriminatory denial of women and girls’ fundamental…

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