Afghanistan: UN Expresses Concern Over Human Rights Violations

New Delhi: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has expressed a dip concern on the human rights violations in Afghanistan. “There is a need for an investigation, transparency, and accountability of such cases in Afghanistan,” the UNAMA Human Rights said during a meeting with Taliban officials at the Ministry of Interior Affairs- Afghanistan.

Several types of Crime, Starvation and unemployment increased in the country in the last few months as the Taliban snatched the authority from Ghani Government. Taliban have failed to deliver its promises on women’s safety and their assurance of an inclusive government.

Several media persons, government members, religious clerics, and women activists have been killed in Afghanistan. At least 30 journalists and media workers have been killed, manhandled, and injured in Afghanistan from the start of 2021 till July 2021, while many of them were also threatened by government officials, according to a report by an Afghanistan nonprofit Nai.

Last year in December, a religious scholar was killed in Afghanistan’s western Farah province. In November, four women activists in the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif in the northern Balkh province were killed. Various violent incidents against women have emerged since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan after the fall of the government in August.

(_Vinayak)