ClearanceJobs: Afghans, especially Hazaras, and human rights activists around the world are demanding more be done. The Hazara people have been specifically targeted by terrorists, tyrants, and militias for decades. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: The Taliban rebels have arrested four civilians in Badakhshan’s Shakey district on the charges of collaborating with the National Resistance Front (NRF) forces, sources said. Sources said Tuesday that these people were first called to Shahr Sabz village in the center of Shakey district and then they were detained and tortured by the Taliban.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 27, 2022 The UN General Assembly’s leaders’ meeting has concluded for a second year in a row without addresses from Afghanistan or Burma, both of whose representation is stuck in limbo after the toppling of UN-recognized governments in the past two years. The United Nations has delayed actions on both
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 18, 2022 ISLAMABAD — The United Nations Sunday renewed its call for Afghanistan’s Taliban to urgently reopen schools to teenage girls, denouncing the anniversary of their exclusion from education as “tragic, shameful, and entirely avoidable.” Since taking control of the conflict-torn country in August of last year, the Islamist group has
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi September 15, 2022 The United Nations says it is “gravely concerned” by video that appears to show Taliban militants executing captured members of an Afghan resistance group. The video, which has been shared widely on social media, shows two groups of men — allegedly from the National Resistance Front (NRF), a group operating mainly
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 12, 2022 A UN human rights expert says conditions in Afghanistan under Taliban rule indicate a “descent towards authoritarianism” and called for radical changes to stop the trend. “The severe rollback of the rights of women and girls, reprisals targeting opponents and critics, and a clampdown on freedom of expression
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 3, 2022 ISLAMABAD — U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres Friday renewed his call for Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to allow teenage girls to resume secondary education, saying “girls belong in schools.” “Girls in Afghanistan continue to be locked out of the classroom,” he said on Twitter late Friday. The Islamist group banned
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 3, 2022 The United Nations has called on the Taliban-led government of Afghanistan to investigate allegations of the forced marriage and abuse of a medical student by an ex-Taliban official that has sparked strong condemnation by many Afghans. “We call on the de facto authorities to transparently investigate all alleged
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 3, 2022 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has named former president of Kyrgyzstan Roza Otunbaeva as the UN’s new special representative for Afghanistan. Otunbaeva, 72, replaces Deborah Lyons, who stepped down in mid-June, the United Nations said in a statement on September 2. She assumes the job as the rights of
Margaret Besheer VOA News August 29, 2022 The United Nations said Monday that 6 million Afghans are on the brink of famine, with winter around the corner and humanitarian appeals dramatically underfunded. “Afghanistan’s crisis is a humanitarian crisis. It’s an economic crisis. It’s a climate crisis. It’s a hunger crisis. It’s a financial crisis,” U.N.