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Afghanistan
Hundreds of Afghan soldiers to be allowed to relocate to UK after U-turn — 14 October 2024 (LINK)
Switzerland deports two convicted Afghan nationals, the first since 2019, citing security concerns — 13 October 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 11 media reports (LINK)
Tens of thousands of court divorce rulings, including for child brides, revoked since the Taliban took control of the country three years ago this month — 28 September 2024 (LINK)
UN OHCHR: Afghanistan's "repressive law" must be immediately repealed — 27 August 2024 (LINK)
— "The newly-adopted law on 'Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice' by the de facto authorities in Afghanistan cements policies that completely erase women's presence in public &mdash silencing their voices, and depriving them of their individual autonomy, effectively attempting to render them into faceless, voiceless shadows."
— "This is utterly intolerable. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk calls for this egregious law to be immediately repealed. The long list of repressive provisions that this law imposes on women reinforces a number of existing restrictions that violate their fundamental human rights, including their freedom of movement, their freedom of expression, and their right to live free from discrimination." — news release
— "The law further tightens the grip on the media sector, with a ban on publishing images of human beings, presumably also those of de facto officials. We call on the de facto authorities to immediately repeal this legislation, which is in clear violation of Afghanistan's obligations under international human rights law."
Taliban vice and virtue laws provide 'distressing vision' for Afghanistan, warns UN envoy — 25 August 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 20 media reports (LINK)
Taliban publish vice laws that ban women's voices and bare faces in public — 21 August 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 39 media reports (LINK)
Former Afghan prosecutors hunted down, killed by Taliban 3 years after US withdrawal — 17 August 2024 (LINK)
— An additional 100 prosecutors have been injured since the U.S. withdrawal, and another 50 are believed to be "locked up in Taliban prisons and their fate is unknown". About 1,000 of the 3,800 prosecutors believed to be in practice prior to August 2021 are thought to have fled to Europe. About 500 prosecutors may have fled to Pakistan, Tajikistan and Iran, where they live in "a state of despair" amid harassment and forced deportations.
35 die, 230 injured in storm that brought heavy rainfall to eastern Afghanistan, Taliban says — 15 July 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 32 media reports — (LINK)
Pakistan says 1.45 million Afghans can stay for another year following UN refugee chief’s visit — 10 July 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 19 media reports — (LINK)
First talks with the Taliban since takeover — no women allowed: At the Taliban government’s insistence, no civil society representatives were in the room with the Taliban officials, meaning no women from Afghanistan were included, prompting criticism from rights groups and activists. UN officials met Afghan civil society groups separately. — BBC — 2 July 2024 (LINK)
Taliban delegation attends UN meeting in Qatar on Afghanistan, women excluded (video) — france24 — 30 June 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 26 media reports — (LINK)
Pakistani Taliban announce a 3-day cease-fire with security forces on Eid al-Adha holiday — ground.news: 12 media reports — 16 June 2024 (LINK)
UN envoy defends failure to include Afghan women in upcoming meeting with the Taliban in Qatar — AP — 21 June 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 16 media reports (LINK)
— U.N. special envoy Roza Otunbayeva was pummeled with questions Friday from journalists about criticism from human rights organizations at the omission of Afghan women from the meeting in Qatar's capital, Doha, on June 30 and July 1. U.N. political chief Rosemary DiCarlo will chair the meeting, Otunbayeva said. She will attend, and a few of the 22 special envoys on Afghanistan who are women will also be there.
— Just before the Doha gathering, there will be a hybrid meeting with Afghan civil society representatives from inside and outside the country, Otunbayeva said. And on July 2, immediately after Doha, "we'll be meeting all the civil society people." Otunbayeva said the upcoming gathering will be the first face-to-face meeting between the Taliban and the envoys and will focus on what she said were "the most important acute issues of today" — private business and banking, and counter-narcotics policy. Both are about women, she said, and the envoys will tell the Taliban, "Look, it doesn't work like this. We should have women around the table. We should provide them also access to businesses." She added that "if there are, let's say, 5 million addicted people in Afghanistan, more than 30% are women."