The United States has identified widespread torture and abuse of detainees by government forces as ‘most significant’ human rights problems in Afghanistan. The State Department in its annual human rights report said the most significant human rights problems…
The European Union (EU) and a number of other countries have asked for a formal investigation into allegations of human rights violations and misusing of authority in kidnapping a tribal elder against 1st Vice-President Gen. Abdur Rashid Dostum.…
KABUL and Daesh, CEO Abdullah Abdullah said on Saturday. Human rights and protection of human dignity are one of most important values of today’s world, he said in his message on the occasion of Human Rights Day (Dec 10).…
‘Substandard programmes ’ aired by television channels and mobile phone use has paved the way for women activists and rights officials said on Sunday. The activists had assembled in Jalalabad, the provincial capital, to discuss issues around human…
The human rights commission in northwestern Faryab province on Thursday condemned the execution of a man accused of planting bomb in Garziwan district, saying the perpetrators should be arrested. Two days back, a person whose relatives had suffered…
KABUL Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) said on Wednesday. The rights body has registered as many as 2,600 incidents of violence against the gender during the first six months of the year that ends on March 21. The commission said…
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah on Wednesday termed unity government’s efforts for protection of human rights unsatisfactory and stressed that more needs to be done in this regard. Speaking at a national conference on future of human…
Public awareness campaigns have led to a remarkable decrease in forced marriages, marring off girls as a dispute settlement mechanism, in southeastern Paktia province, said officials of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) and women's affairs department. Noor Ahmad…
KABUL Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) chairperson on Sunday asked the United States to bring the perpetrators to justice. Last week, the US Senate accused the CIA of using brutal but ineffective techniques in interrogating detainees during the Bush…
Even government offices have flouted the law on jobs for the disabled, according to an Independent Media Consortium (IMC) investigation. Article 22 of the Law on Rights and Privileges of Persons with Disabilities says 3 percent of jobs…
Human rights, civil society province. The deaths occurred during the past three days, with three civilians falling prey to a roadside bomb, the Taliban’s weapon of choice and remaining shot dead by insurgents after pulling them off a…
Living in a shelter in northern Jawzjan province, teenage girls on Wednesday complained against growing domestic violence, torture and forced marriage. Addressing a press conference arranged by human right groups and civil society organisations, the girls said their…
KABUL Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on Sunday asked the government to declare the practice a crime and punish those involved. The rights watchdog has launched a nationwide investigation into bacha bazi or play boy. The commission says the practice has…
KABUL): The European Union (EU) on Wednesday called on Afghan presidential candidates for the April 5 elections to put human rights on top of their political agenda. "Respect for human rights must form an essential part of the future political…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): One policeman has been killed and four others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a police check post in Marjah district of the southern Helmand province, an official said Thursday. Fawad Askari, provincial police spokesperson, told Pajhwok Afghan…
KABUL’s continuing plight, including murder, rape and summary execution. The independent watchdog attributed the worrying situation to limited access to education, the government’s failure to pay attention to their rights and poor rule of law in the country. In a…
KABUL, asking the government to check the menace. The AIHRC said the immoral practice was widespread and increasingly becoming a tradition involving powerful men. The individuals complicit in the sordid business were apparently getting away with the crime, she added.…
KABUL): An influential human rights group on Wednesday called on the Karzai administration to repeal recent amnesty and election laws preventing the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IEEC) from disqualifying presidential candidates responsible for past atrocities. Former commanders implicated in serious…
KABUL Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Thursday strongly condemned mass killings under the communist regime in the 1970s, saying it had been delivered death lists the International Crimes Unit of the Netherlands National Police had obtained from Afghanistan. As…
KABUL (PAN): A large number of people coming all the way from central Uruzgan province staged a protest rally in Kabul on Monday, calling for the public hanging of a serial killer, Hakimullah Shujayee. Shujayee, a resident of southern Ghazni…
KABUL legal protection from domestic violence. A new draft of the criminal procedure code is currently being considered by the lower house of the parliament, according to Human Rights Watch, which claimed seeing the proposed legislative measure. The proposed language…
KABUL Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) member Abdul Rahman Hotak. President Hamid Karzai recently appointed Hotak, who has voiced opposition to the Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW) law, Human Rights Watch said. The newly-appointed AIHRC member, who was also…
KABUL Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) chief on Monday acknowledged fresh appointments to the watchdog did not meet the UN-set conditions and qualifications for the UN, so the commission might loss its credibility. After a delay of more than 18…
KABUL’s most important human rights body having “little or no record defending human rights”. Karzai’s appointment of a weakly qualified human rights commission with little public consultation raised concerns about the country’s most important rights body, Human Rights Watch (HRW)…
