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Afghanistan: UN experts demand immediate end to Taliban restrictions on women at UN premises

31 March 2026, GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed alarm over the continuing ban preventing Afghan women from accessing UN premises, including UN national staff, contractors, and visitors. “Barring women from UN offices is a direct attack on women’s rights, including...

Afghanistan: International community must reject Taliban’s violent and authoritarian rule, say UN experts

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14 August 2025, GENEVA – UN experts* today called on the international community to reject the Taliban’s violent and authoritarian rule and resist any moves towards normalising the de facto authorities’ regime, four years after the group seized power in Afghanistan....

New morality law affirms Taliban’s regressive agenda, experts call for concerted action

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30 August 2024, GENEVA – UN human rights experts* voiced profound concern today over the Taliban’s recent enactment of the “Law on the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice,” signalling further serious regression in human rights in Afghanistan and an escalation...

Afghanistan: UN experts alarmed by media outlet’s spreading of disinformation

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28 July 2023 – UN experts* today voiced their concern at disinformation by a media outlet concerning a Human Rights Council event about women’s and girls’ rights in Afghanistan in June. They issued the following statement: “We are dismayed that a media outlet named...

Afghanistan: Taliban must stop targeting Afghan women

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6 April 2023 – UN experts* today demanded the immediate reversal of the Taliban’s recent order banning Afghan women from working with the United Nations in Afghanistan. On 4 April, the de facto authorities prevented women working for the United Nations in Jalalabad...