UN experts call on Taliban to end "brutal" forms of punishment

May 12, 2023

A group of UN-appointed ten Special Rapporteurs, including Richard Bennett and members of the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, called on...

Afghanistan: UN experts call on Taliban to immediately halt public floggings and executions

Dec 16, 2022

UN experts are deeply aggrieved about a public execution and that flogging has resumed in Afghanistan and call on the de facto authorities to...

Taliban welcomes UN chief's call to lift ban on fund

Jan 14, 2022

Kabul [Afghanistan], January 14 : Taliban on Friday welcomed remarks of the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calling on the international community to lift...

UN experts call for immediate sanctions, arms embargo against Israel

May 30, 2024

Following Israel's strike on Rafah, killing 45 people, the United Nations experts have issued the call for "decisive international action" and called for...

UN emergency experts call for urgent humanitarian action in Afghanistan

Feb 26, 2022

New York [US], February 26 : A call for urgent support to life-saving humanitarian action in Afghanistan was made by a group of emergency...

Taliban ruling through extreme forms of misogyny, say UN experts

May 06, 2023

This came following UN experts eight-day visit to Afghanistan. UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett was also...