Human Rights Council Extends Special Rapporteur’s Mandate on Afghanistan

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – The UN Human Rights Council has extended the Special Rapporteur’s mandate on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan for a one-year period.

In a resolution adopted without vote on Wednesday, October 9, the council requested Richard Bennett, who has been barred from entering Afghanistan by the Taliban, to present a report on the human rights situation in Afghanistan at its fifty-eighth session.