UN Human Rights Council Urged to Establish Independent Body for Afghanistan Accountability

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the UN Human Rights Council to urgently establish an independent body to investigate and hold accountable those responsible for serious human rights abuses in Afghanistan, both past and present.

In a statement released today, HRW highlighted the deteriorating human rights and humanitarian situation under Taliban rule, three years after their takeover. The organization described Afghanistan as facing “the world’s most serious women’s rights crisis,” due to the Taliban’s repressive policies that have disproportionately targeted women and girls.