Taliban bar Afghan women from working for the United Nations

UNAMA’s report documented civilian protection concerns, extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary detention, restrictions on women and girls, and limits on fundamental freedoms in the first ten...

A U.S. drone strike killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri at a residence in Kabul. The strike was the first publicly confirmed U.S. attack in Afghanistan since the troop withdrawal and demonstrated...

A suicide attack struck students taking a practice university entrance exam at the Kaaj Education Centre in Dasht-e-Barchi, a predominantly Hazara Shia neighborhood of Kabul. UN officials condemned...

The Taliban de facto Ministry of Higher Education ordered public and private universities to suspend women’s education until further notice. The order extended the exclusion of girls from secondary...

Taliban authorities directed national and international nongovernmental organizations to stop Afghan women employees from working. Women staff were essential to reaching women and children with aid,...

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2681, condemning the Taliban ban on Afghan women working for the United Nations and calling for women’s full, equal and meaningful participation....

A UNAMA report covering August 2021 through June 2023 documented at least 800 instances of extrajudicial killing, arbitrary arrest and detention, torture and ill-treatment, and enforced...

A Pakistani government deadline required undocumented foreigners, many of them Afghans, to leave or face deportation. UN agencies warned that families, including some with legal documents or refugee...

UNODC’s 2023 survey found that opium poppy cultivation had fallen 95 percent from 2022, following the Taliban’s April 2022 ban. The rapid change reduced a major source of rural earnings and...

Resolution 2721 requested a special envoy with human-rights and gender expertise following an independent assessment. It called for consultation with Afghan women and civil society while retaining...