“That is the newest in a sequence of discriminatory – and illegal – measures applied by the de facto authorities with the aim of severely limiting girls and women’ participation in most areas of public and every day life in Afghanistan,” the U.N. mentioned in a report on the human rights state of affairs within the south Asian nation.
Taliban authorities continued to crack down on dissenting voices this yr, particularly those that converse out on points associated to the rights of ladies and women, the report mentioned.
The U.N. report cited the March arrest of 4 girls who had been launched the next day throughout a protest demanding entry to schooling and work within the capital of Kabul and the arrest of Matiullah Wesa, head of PenPath, a civil society group campaigning for the reopening of women’ colleges.
It additionally pointed to the arrest of a girls’s rights activist Parisa Mobariz and her brother in February within the northern Takhar province.
A number of different civil society activists have been launched — reportedly with out being charged — following prolonged intervals of arbitrary detention by the Taliban Intelligence service, the report mentioned.
The measures can have disastrous results on Afghanistan’s prospects for prosperity, stability and peace, the United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan, UNAMA mentioned within the report.
“UNAMA is worried by rising restrictions on civic area throughout Afghanistan,” mentioned Fiona Frazer, the company’s human rights chief.
The Taliban beforehand banned women from going to highschool past the sixth grade and blocked girls from most public life and work. In December, they banned Afghan girls from working at native and non-governmental organizations — a measure that on the time didn’t prolong to U.N. workplaces.
The report additionally pointed to ongoing extrajudicial killings of people affiliated with the previous authorities. On March 5 in southern Kandahar, Taliban forces arrested a former police officer from his house, then shot and killed him, in accordance with the report. Throughout the identical month in northern Balkh, a former army official was killed by unknown armed males in his home, it mentioned.
“Arbitrary arrests and detention of former authorities officers and Afghanistan Nationwide Safety and Protection Pressure members additionally occurred all through February, March and April,” added the report.
In a separate report launched Monday, the U.N. strongly criticized the Taliban for finishing up public executions, lashings and stonings since seizing energy in Afghanistan, and known as on the nation’s rulers to halt such practices.
Prior to now six months alone, 274 males, 58 girls and two boys had been publicly flogged in Afghanistan, mentioned the report.
The Taliban international ministry mentioned in response that Afghanistan’s legal guidelines are decided in accordance with Islamic guidelines and pointers, and that an awesome majority of Afghans observe these guidelines.
The Taliban started finishing up such punishments shortly after coming to energy nearly two years in the past, regardless of preliminary guarantees of a extra reasonable rule than throughout their earlier stint in energy within the Nineteen Nineties.
Beneath the primary Taliban regime from 1996 to 2001, public corporal punishment and executions had been carried out by officers towards people convicted of crimes, typically in giant venues reminiscent of sports activities stadiums and at city intersections.
“That is the newest in a sequence of discriminatory – and illegal – measures applied by the de facto authorities with the aim of severely limiting girls and women’ participation in most areas of public and every day life in Afghanistan,” the U.N. mentioned in a report on the human rights state of affairs within the south Asian nation.
Taliban authorities continued to crack down on dissenting voices this yr, particularly those that converse out on points associated to the rights of ladies and women, the report mentioned.
The U.N. report cited the March arrest of 4 girls who had been launched the next day throughout a protest demanding entry to schooling and work within the capital of Kabul and the arrest of Matiullah Wesa, head of PenPath, a civil society group campaigning for the reopening of women’ colleges.
It additionally pointed to the arrest of a girls’s rights activist Parisa Mobariz and her brother in February within the northern Takhar province.
A number of different civil society activists have been launched — reportedly with out being charged — following prolonged intervals of arbitrary detention by the Taliban Intelligence service, the report mentioned.
The measures can have disastrous results on Afghanistan’s prospects for prosperity, stability and peace, the United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan, UNAMA mentioned within the report.
“UNAMA is worried by rising restrictions on civic area throughout Afghanistan,” mentioned Fiona Frazer, the company’s human rights chief.
The Taliban beforehand banned women from going to highschool past the sixth grade and blocked girls from most public life and work. In December, they banned Afghan girls from working at native and non-governmental organizations — a measure that on the time didn’t prolong to U.N. workplaces.
The report additionally pointed to ongoing extrajudicial killings of people affiliated with the previous authorities. On March 5 in southern Kandahar, Taliban forces arrested a former police officer from his house, then shot and killed him, in accordance with the report. Throughout the identical month in northern Balkh, a former army official was killed by unknown armed males in his home, it mentioned.
“Arbitrary arrests and detention of former authorities officers and Afghanistan Nationwide Safety and Protection Pressure members additionally occurred all through February, March and April,” added the report.
In a separate report launched Monday, the U.N. strongly criticized the Taliban for finishing up public executions, lashings and stonings since seizing energy in Afghanistan, and known as on the nation’s rulers to halt such practices.
Prior to now six months alone, 274 males, 58 girls and two boys had been publicly flogged in Afghanistan, mentioned the report.
The Taliban international ministry mentioned in response that Afghanistan’s legal guidelines are decided in accordance with Islamic guidelines and pointers, and that an awesome majority of Afghans observe these guidelines.
The Taliban started finishing up such punishments shortly after coming to energy nearly two years in the past, regardless of preliminary guarantees of a extra reasonable rule than throughout their earlier stint in energy within the Nineteen Nineties.
Beneath the primary Taliban regime from 1996 to 2001, public corporal punishment and executions had been carried out by officers towards people convicted of crimes, typically in giant venues reminiscent of sports activities stadiums and at city intersections.
“That is the newest in a sequence of discriminatory – and illegal – measures applied by the de facto authorities with the aim of severely limiting girls and women’ participation in most areas of public and every day life in Afghanistan,” the U.N. mentioned in a report on the human rights state of affairs within the south Asian nation.
Taliban authorities continued to crack down on dissenting voices this yr, particularly those that converse out on points associated to the rights of ladies and women, the report mentioned.
The U.N. report cited the March arrest of 4 girls who had been launched the next day throughout a protest demanding entry to schooling and work within the capital of Kabul and the arrest of Matiullah Wesa, head of PenPath, a civil society group campaigning for the reopening of women’ colleges.
It additionally pointed to the arrest of a girls’s rights activist Parisa Mobariz and her brother in February within the northern Takhar province.
A number of different civil society activists have been launched — reportedly with out being charged — following prolonged intervals of arbitrary detention by the Taliban Intelligence service, the report mentioned.
The measures can have disastrous results on Afghanistan’s prospects for prosperity, stability and peace, the United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan, UNAMA mentioned within the report.
“UNAMA is worried by rising restrictions on civic area throughout Afghanistan,” mentioned Fiona Frazer, the company’s human rights chief.
The Taliban beforehand banned women from going to highschool past the sixth grade and blocked girls from most public life and work. In December, they banned Afghan girls from working at native and non-governmental organizations — a measure that on the time didn’t prolong to U.N. workplaces.
The report additionally pointed to ongoing extrajudicial killings of people affiliated with the previous authorities. On March 5 in southern Kandahar, Taliban forces arrested a former police officer from his house, then shot and killed him, in accordance with the report. Throughout the identical month in northern Balkh, a former army official was killed by unknown armed males in his home, it mentioned.
“Arbitrary arrests and detention of former authorities officers and Afghanistan Nationwide Safety and Protection Pressure members additionally occurred all through February, March and April,” added the report.
In a separate report launched Monday, the U.N. strongly criticized the Taliban for finishing up public executions, lashings and stonings since seizing energy in Afghanistan, and known as on the nation’s rulers to halt such practices.
Prior to now six months alone, 274 males, 58 girls and two boys had been publicly flogged in Afghanistan, mentioned the report.
The Taliban international ministry mentioned in response that Afghanistan’s legal guidelines are decided in accordance with Islamic guidelines and pointers, and that an awesome majority of Afghans observe these guidelines.
The Taliban started finishing up such punishments shortly after coming to energy nearly two years in the past, regardless of preliminary guarantees of a extra reasonable rule than throughout their earlier stint in energy within the Nineteen Nineties.
Beneath the primary Taliban regime from 1996 to 2001, public corporal punishment and executions had been carried out by officers towards people convicted of crimes, typically in giant venues reminiscent of sports activities stadiums and at city intersections.
“That is the newest in a sequence of discriminatory – and illegal – measures applied by the de facto authorities with the aim of severely limiting girls and women’ participation in most areas of public and every day life in Afghanistan,” the U.N. mentioned in a report on the human rights state of affairs within the south Asian nation.
Taliban authorities continued to crack down on dissenting voices this yr, particularly those that converse out on points associated to the rights of ladies and women, the report mentioned.
The U.N. report cited the March arrest of 4 girls who had been launched the next day throughout a protest demanding entry to schooling and work within the capital of Kabul and the arrest of Matiullah Wesa, head of PenPath, a civil society group campaigning for the reopening of women’ colleges.
It additionally pointed to the arrest of a girls’s rights activist Parisa Mobariz and her brother in February within the northern Takhar province.
A number of different civil society activists have been launched — reportedly with out being charged — following prolonged intervals of arbitrary detention by the Taliban Intelligence service, the report mentioned.
The measures can have disastrous results on Afghanistan’s prospects for prosperity, stability and peace, the United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan, UNAMA mentioned within the report.
“UNAMA is worried by rising restrictions on civic area throughout Afghanistan,” mentioned Fiona Frazer, the company’s human rights chief.
The Taliban beforehand banned women from going to highschool past the sixth grade and blocked girls from most public life and work. In December, they banned Afghan girls from working at native and non-governmental organizations — a measure that on the time didn’t prolong to U.N. workplaces.
The report additionally pointed to ongoing extrajudicial killings of people affiliated with the previous authorities. On March 5 in southern Kandahar, Taliban forces arrested a former police officer from his house, then shot and killed him, in accordance with the report. Throughout the identical month in northern Balkh, a former army official was killed by unknown armed males in his home, it mentioned.
“Arbitrary arrests and detention of former authorities officers and Afghanistan Nationwide Safety and Protection Pressure members additionally occurred all through February, March and April,” added the report.
In a separate report launched Monday, the U.N. strongly criticized the Taliban for finishing up public executions, lashings and stonings since seizing energy in Afghanistan, and known as on the nation’s rulers to halt such practices.
Prior to now six months alone, 274 males, 58 girls and two boys had been publicly flogged in Afghanistan, mentioned the report.
The Taliban international ministry mentioned in response that Afghanistan’s legal guidelines are decided in accordance with Islamic guidelines and pointers, and that an awesome majority of Afghans observe these guidelines.
The Taliban started finishing up such punishments shortly after coming to energy nearly two years in the past, regardless of preliminary guarantees of a extra reasonable rule than throughout their earlier stint in energy within the Nineteen Nineties.
Beneath the primary Taliban regime from 1996 to 2001, public corporal punishment and executions had been carried out by officers towards people convicted of crimes, typically in giant venues reminiscent of sports activities stadiums and at city intersections.
