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...

UN calls on Taliban to halt flogging, executions in Afghanistan

May 09, 2023

Human Rights Chief of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Fiona Frazer, in a statement said the Taliban's corporal punishment is against international law.

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...

Sri Lanka: UN experts condemn crackdown on protests

Apr 09, 2022

Geneva [Switzerland], April 9 : UN human rights experts have urged the Sri Lankan Government to guarantee the fundamental rights of peaceful assembly and...

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...

Afghanistan: Taliban publicly flogs boy, girl for having pre-marital affair

Nov 18, 2022

Afghanistan's local court in Bamyan ordered public flogging for a boy and a girl for having pre-marital affair.