Afghanistan | Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression and Opinion

New morality law affirms Taliban’s regressive agenda, experts call for concerted action

Aug 30, 2024 | News, Statements, Top-line

30 August 2024, GENEVA – UN human rights experts* voiced profound concern today over the Taliban’s recent enactment of the “Law on the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice,” signalling further serious regression in human rights in Afghanistan and an escalation...

Afghanistan: UN experts alarmed by media outlet’s spreading of disinformation

Jul 28, 2023 | Statements

28 July 2023 – UN experts* today voiced their concern at disinformation by a media outlet concerning a Human Rights Council event about women’s and girls’ rights in Afghanistan in June. They issued the following statement: “We are dismayed that a media outlet named...

Afghanistan: Taliban must stop targeting Afghan women

Apr 6, 2023 | Statements

6 April 2023 – UN experts* today demanded the immediate reversal of the Taliban’s recent order banning Afghan women from working with the United Nations in Afghanistan. On 4 April, the de facto authorities prevented women working for the United Nations in Jalalabad...