UN slams killings, rights abuses under Afghanistan’s Taliban

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A whole bunch of individuals have been killed in Afghanistan for the reason that Taliban overran the nation practically a yr in the past, though safety on the entire has improved since then, the United Nations stated in a report Wednesday.

In its report, the United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan additionally highlighted the poor scenario of ladies and women for the reason that Taliban takeover and the way they’ve been stripped of a lot of their human rights below Afghanistan’s present rulers.

“It’s past time for all Afghans to have the ability to stay in peace and rebuild their lives after 20 years of armed battle. Our monitoring reveals that regardless of the improved safety scenario since 15 August, the folks of Afghanistan, particularly girls and women, are disadvantaged of the complete enjoyment of their human rights,” stated Markus Potzel, deputy particular consultant of the Secretary-Normal for Afghanistan.

The report stated as many as 700 folks have been killed and 1,400 wounded since mid-August 2021, when the Taliban overran the Afghan capital of Kabul as america and NATO have been within the remaining weeks of their withdrawal from the nation.

Nearly all of these casualties have been linked to assaults by the Islamic State group’s affiliate within the nation, a bitter rival of the Taliban which has focused ethnic and non secular minority communities in locations the place they go to high school, worship and go about their every day lives.

Afghanistan has seen persistent bombings and different assaults on civilians, usually concentrating on the primarily Shiite Muslim ethnic Hazara minority. Many of the assaults have been claimed by the Islamic State group’s affiliate within the nation.

After their takeover, the Taliban rapidly began imposing a sharply harder line, reminiscent of comparable radical measures when the Taliban final dominated the nation, from 1996 to 2001.

They issued edicts requiring girls to cowl their faces besides for his or her eyes in public, together with girls presenters on TV, and banned women from attending faculty previous the sixth grade.

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The U.N. report added that the erosion of ladies’s rights has been one of the vital notable elements of the de facto administration so far. Since August, girls and women have progressively had their rights to totally take part in schooling, the office and different elements of public and every day life restricted and in lots of circumstances utterly taken away.

The choice to not permit women to return to secondary faculty signifies that a era of women is not going to full their full 12 years of primary schooling, the U.N. stated.

“The schooling and participation of ladies and women in public life is key to any trendy society. The relegation of ladies and women to the house denies Afghanistan the advantage of the numerous contributions they’ve to supply. Schooling for all is just not solely a primary human proper, it’s the key to progress and improvement of a nation,” stated Potzel, the U.N. envoy.

In the course of the earlier Taliban rule in Afghanistan, they subjected girls to overwhelming restrictions, banning them from schooling and participation in public life and requiring them to put on the all-encompassing burqa.