Afghan Women’s News Agency – Human rights defender Abdullah Ahmadi gave a speech at the periodic meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, criticized the continuing violence and crimes of the Taliban and the silence of international organizations against these crimes and emphasized on documenting the crimes of this group and how to deal […]
Afghan Women’s News Agency – Human rights defender Abdullah Ahmadi gave a speech at the periodic meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, criticized the continuing violence and crimes of the Taliban and the silence of international organizations against these crimes and emphasized on documenting the crimes of this group and how to deal with them.
Mr. Ahmadi said: “Every day, human rights in Afghanistan are severely violated, citizens and especially women are completely deprived of their basic rights and freedoms. Civil space is blocked and no one can freely express their opinions even through art and music. Human rights activists, journalists and former security forces are arrested, tortured, disappeared and brutally killed.”
Referring to the reports of Richard Bennett, the special rapporteur on human rights of the United Nations, Abdullah Ahmadi called his work valuable and criticized the lack of documentation of most of the human crimes committed by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Mr. Ahmadi added: “Unfortunately, the human rights situation has not improved and has worsened. Most of the cases of human rights violations in different parts of Afghanistan have not been fully documented and reported.”
Ahmadi stressed that there is an urgent need to establish an independent research mechanism to document and monitor the human rights situation.
Mr. Ahmadi asked the members of the United Nations member states to continue supporting the human rights defenders at risk and asked them to take serious and clear action against the systematic policy of violating the rights of women and girls and gender discrimination in Afghanistan and to recognize gender apartheid an international crime.
The periodic meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council is being held while in the two years of the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan, no independent institution has been able to monitor or document the anti-human crimes of the Taliban against the people of Afghanistan.
