Advocacy Reports

At the 60th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva*, states and international bodies voiced grave concern about Afghanistan’s deepening human rights crisis—particularly the systematic oppr...

Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, has raised alarm in a recent report about Afghanistan: women and girls continue to be arrested for alleged dress-code violations under Tali...

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has delivered a stark warning to the UN General Assembly and Security Council: the human rights situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating...

The Washington Post has reported that the Taliban regime’s recent decision to shut down fiber-optic internet in Afghanistan amounts to severing the vital lifelines of the country’s women and girls....

The Taliban has recently shut down fiber optic internet services in several Afghan provinces, including Balkh, Kandahar, Helmand, Herat, Badakhshan, Takhar, KundezZabul, Nimroz, Logar, Paktika, Paktia...

The UN Secretary-General has called the Taliban’s prevention of women from participating in relief operations, including in provinces such as Kunar, “foolish.” António Guterres said that what the Ta...

Sources in Kabul report that Taliban’s Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Amr bil Maroof wa Nahi Anil Munkar) officials in hospitals are halting patients’ surgical proced...

In Herat, the Taliban have taken repression to a new extreme: women are now forbidden to raise their voices in shops. Instead, they are told to signal silently to vendors when making purchases — an...

In Kandahar, the Taliban have issued a new decree forcing all female vendors and shopkeepers to wear the burqa (chadari) while working in markets — a rule that has stirred outrage among women traders...

In yet another assault on freedom of expression, the Taliban’s court in Balkh province has issued a decree prohibiting the publication of images of living beings — humans and animals alike. The order...

Local sources in Maidan Wardak say a man shot and killed three members of his own family — his mother, wife, and father. According to a relative of the suspect, the incident occurred on Friday in Hes...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned in a new report that the situation of children in Afghanistan’s earthquake-affected regions has deteriorated alarmingly. On Friday, September 12...