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☆ LGBTQ Afghans say they face abuse in detention as Taliban crackdown intensifies
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-19 | by ( Billy Stockwell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

“He grabbed me from behind, tore my clothes apart and raped me,” Sohrab – whose name has been changed for security reasons – told CNN in October. Transgender and gender non-conforming people are being “consistently” targeted at Taliban checkpoints due to their choice of clothing, human rights groups said. “I will never forget when the Taliban came to our house,” Samiar Nazari, a 22-year-old transgender man, told CNN. Other human rights groups have documented instances of extrajudicial detention, conducted out of the public eye. With little sign that the Taliban will improve their record on human rights, many in the country feel abandoned by the international community.

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☆ No music, no Western-style haircuts: UN report details life in Afghanistan under Taliban’s moral enforcers
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( Lex Harvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Listening to music, smoking hookah, and getting a Western-style haircut are all punishable acts under the suffocating rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan, according to a new UN report. The Taliban’s so-called morality police have curtailed human rights – disproportionately targeting women and girls – creating a “climate of fear and intimidation,” said the report by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) published Tuesday. Moreover, the report said, the Taliban’s instructions are issued in a variety of formats – often only verbally – and are inconsistently and unpredictably enforced. However, reports from Afghanistan suggest the Taliban’s repressive control over women has led to a sharp rise in suicide attempts. Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP/Getty ImagesMedia is heavily restricted, and residents live in a surveillance state, the report added.

Persons: ”, Majid Saeedi, Ebrahim Noroozi, Bernat, Ahmad, Ahmad Sahel Arman, “, Rosemary DiCarlo Organizations: CNN, UN, legislating, Taliban, ”, Getty, Media Locations: Afghanistan, Zaranj, Afghanistan's Nimroz, Kabul, Afghan, Ahmad Sahel, AFP, Qatar, Doha

☆ UN records torture, deaths of detainees in Taliban custody
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Taliban soldiers stand guard at the second-anniversary ceremony of the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2023. The U.N. Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) said 18 people had also died in prisons and in the custody of police and intelligence in the 19 months ending July 2023. The Taliban have staffed and controlled the police and the intelligence agency since they took over the country as foreign forces withdrew in 2021. Other violations included not being informed of the reason for arrest, not being able to access a lawyer and inadequate medical care in custody. "There is a pressing need to consider more engagement with the de facto authorities to end these practices."

Persons: Ali Khara, UNAMA, Roza Otunbayeva, Charlotte Greenfield, Miral Organizations: REUTERS, United Nations, Journalists, Thomson Locations: Kabul, Afghanistan, Mission

☆ UN says Taliban carried out hundreds of extrajudicial killings after seizing power
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Heather Chen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Taliban fighters have committed hundreds of extrajudicial killings since taking power in Afghanistan in 2021, despite a “general amnesty” meant to protect the previous government, according to the United Nations. International rights groups and bodies like the UN have accused the Taliban of unwinding progress in protecting human rights since seizing power. In interviews conducted with UN officials, individuals recounted beatings with pipes, cables, verbal threats and abuse at the hands of Taliban security force members. “Former government and security officials are entitled to the same human rights protections as all Afghans.”Turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, called on the Taliban to punish offenders. “Afghans were able to regain their country, freedom, government and will,” Taliban deputy spokesperson Bilal Karimi previously told CNN.

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☆ UN says over 200 former Afghan military, officials killed since Taliban takeover
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Ali Khara/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsAug 22 (Reuters) - More than 200 members of Afghanistan's former military, law enforcement and government have been killed since the Taliban took over, the U.N. mission in Afghanistan said on Tuesday, despite a "general amnesty" for old enemies. The mission said in a report it had recorded at least 218 extrajudicial killings with links to the Taliban from their takeover of Afghanistan in mid-2021 up to June. "In most instances, individuals were detained by de facto security forces, often briefly, before being killed," the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said. Senior Taliban leaders have said there is an amnesty for former government officials and members of the military by order of their supreme leader. In total, UNAMA had recorded 800 incidents of human rights violations connected with the Taliban against former government employees and military including arbitrary arrests, disappearance and torture.

Persons: Ali Khara, UNAMA, Charlotte Greenfield, Robert Birsel Organizations: REUTERS, Senior, Afghan National Defence and Security Forces, Thomson Locations: Emirate, Afghanistan, Kabul, Islamic Emirate

☆ Over 1,000 Afghan civilians killed in blasts, violence since August 2021 - UN
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Charlotte Greenfield | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

June 27 (Reuters) - Over a thousand Afghan civilians were killed in bombings and other violence since foreign forces left and the Taliban took over in 2021, according to a report by the U.N.'s mission to Afghanistan released on Tuesday. Between Aug. 15 2021 and May this year 1,095 civilians were killed and 2,679 wounded, according to the U.N. Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA), underscoring the security challenges even after the end of decades of war. Though armed fighting has fallen dramatically since the Taliban took over in August 2021 as the NATO-backed military collapsed, security challenges remain, particularly from the Islamic State. The militant group was responsible for the majority of attacks, according to the UNAMA, which also noted that the deadliness of attacks had escalated despite fewer violent incidents. Just over 1,700 casualties, including injuries, were attributed to explosive attacks claimed by Islamic State, according to UNAMA.

Persons: Charlotte Greenfield, Stephen Coates Organizations: Taliban, NATO, Islamic, Security, Thomson Locations: Afghanistan, Mission, Islamic State, Emirate

☆ The Taliban promised to provide security to Afghans. New data shows threat from ISIS is growing
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Eliza Mackintosh Ehsan Popalzai Antonio Jarne Lou Robinson | Eliza Mackintosh | Ehsan Popalzai | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

“Currently we don’t have security in Afghanistan at all, whenever we go out we don’t know if we will come home alive or not,” he added. Taliban security forces guard a checkpoint near the foreign ministry in Kabul on March 27, after an ISIS-K suicide bomber struck the site. The data, which is available in a live map, includes 367 pieces of open-source evidence — largely videos and images shared on social media — about 70 ISIS-K attacks since August 2021. As the Taliban try to minimize the threat ISIS-K poses, attacks on civilians continue. Taliban security forces have been waging ongoing operations and night raids against ISIS-K.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres would view any ban on Afghan women working for the United Nations in their country as "unacceptable and, frankly, inconceivable", he said. The restrictions did not initially apply to the United Nations and some other international organisations. In January, the U.N Deputy Secretary-General flagged concerns that authorities could next restrict Afghan women working at international organisations. It was not immediately clear whether foreign embassies in Kabul had received similar instructions on female staff. Article 8 of its governing charter requires the U.N. not to place any restrictions on men and women working for U.N. agencies.

☆ Afghan broadcaster airs rare all-female panel to discuss rights on Women's Day
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

KABUL, March 8 (Reuters) - Afghan broadcaster Tolo News on Wednesday aired an all-female panel in its studio with an audience of women to mark International Women's Day, a rare broadcast since the Taliban took over and many female journalists left the profession or started working off-air. A survey by Reporters Without Borders last year found that more than 75% of female journalists had lost their jobs since the Taliban took over as foreign forces withdrew in August 2021. The Taliban last year restricted most girls from high school, women from university and stopped most Afghan female NGO workers. Another panellist, former university professor Zakira Nabil said women would continue to find ways to learn and work. The United Nation's Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Wednesday called on the Taliban to reverse restrictions on the rights of girls and women, calling them "distressing."

☆ U.N. Security Council denounces Taliban bans on women in Afghanistan
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Michelle Nichols | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 27 (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday called for the full, equal and meaningful participation of women and girls in Afghanistan, denouncing a ban by the Taliban-led administration on women attending universities or working for humanitarian aid groups. In a statement agreed by consensus, the 15-member council said the ban on women and girls attending high school and universities in Afghanistan "represents an increasing erosion for the respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms." The university ban on women was announced as the Security Council in New York met on Afghanistan last week. "These restrictions contradict the commitments made by the Taliban to the Afghan people as well as the expectations of the international community," said the Security Council, which also expressed its full support for the U.N. political mission in Afghanistan, known as UNAMA. They had largely banned education of girls when last in power two decades ago but had said their policies had changed.

☆ Peste 26.000 de copii au fost uciși sau răniți în conflictele din Afganistan
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-23 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

În perioada 2005-2019 în conflictele din Afganistan au fost ucişi sau răniţi 26.025 de copii, arată un raport al organizaţiei caritabile britanice Salvaţi Copiii, preluat de dpa. Numai anul trecut, în Afganistan au căzut victime violenţei 3149 de copii - 874 ucişi şi 2275 răniţi - adică 30% din copiii care şi-au pierdut viaţa sau au fost mutilaţi în zonele de conflict din întreaga lume, arată documentul. Conform organizaţiei, statistica înregistrează copiii prinşi între forţele pro şi antiguvernamentale aflate în conflict direct, scrie Agerpres. Un raport anterior al misiunii ONU în Afganistan (UNAMA) consemna uciderea sau rănirea în Afganistan a 5939 de civili, dintre care 31% copii, în primele nouă luni din 2020. Analiza făcută de Salvaţi Copiii pentru 2019 arată că, dintre 11 state considerate cele mai periculoase pentru copii, Afganistanul este cel unde îşi pierd viaţa cei mai mulţi.

Persons: Copiii Organizations: ONU Locations: Afganistan, Agerpres, Afganistanul

☆ За несколько лет из-за военных конфликтов в Афганистане погибло свыше 26 тысяч детей
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-23 | by ( ) nokta.md time to read: +1 min

Согласно отчету британской благотворительной организации Save the Children, с 2005 по 2019 год 26 025 детей были убиты или ранены в ходе конфликтов в Афганистане. Только в прошлом году 3 149 подростка стали жертвами насилия в Афганистане — 874 убитых и 2275 раненых — или 30% детей, погибших или получивших увечья в зонах конфликтов по всему миру, говорится в документе, передает Agerpres. По данным организации, статистика показывает, что дети оказываются вовлеченными в прямой конфликт между про и антиправительственными силами. В более раннем отчете Миссии ООН в Афганистане (UNAMA) сообщалось, что за первые девять месяцев 2020 года в Афганистане было убито или ранено 5539 мирных жителей, 31% из которых — дети. Анализ, проведенный организацией «Спасите детей» за 2019 год, показывает, что из 11 государств, считающихся наиболее опасными для детей, именно Афганистан является тем местом, где гибнет большое количество детей.

Organizations: Миссия, ООН, Спасшие детей Locations: Афганистан

☆ Peste 26.000 de copii au fost uciși sau răniți în conflictele din Afganistan // Raport
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-23 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: 1 min

Numai anul trecut, în Afganistan au căzut victime violenţei 3149 de copii - 874 ucişi şi 2275 răniţi - adică 30% din copiii care şi-au pierdut viaţa sau au fost mutilaţi în zonele de conflict din întreaga lume, arată documentul. Conform organizaţiei, statistica înregistrează copiii prinşi între forţele pro şi antiguvernamentale aflate în conflict direct, scrie Agerpres. Un raport anterior al misiunii ONU în Afganistan (UNAMA) consemna uciderea sau rănirea în Afganistan a 5939 de civili, dintre care 31% copii, în primele nouă luni din 2020. Analiza făcută de Salvaţi Copiii pentru 2019 arată că, dintre 11 state considerate cele mai periculoase pentru copii, Afganistanul este cel unde îşi pierd viaţa cei mai mulţi.

Organizations: ONU Locations: Afganistan, Agerpres, Afganistanul

Organizations: ONU Locations: Afganistan, Agerpres, Afganistanul

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