Security Council requests a special envoy for Afghanistan

The de facto authorities notified the United Nations that Afghan women could no longer work for the organization in Afghanistan. The order extended the December 2022 NGO ban. The UN said female...

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...

The UN held its third meeting of special envoys on Afghanistan in Doha. Taliban representatives participated after prior meetings had been boycotted; Afghan women’s rights advocates and civil...

The de facto authorities published a morality law codifying rules that restrict women’s dress, movement, speech and public presence and empower morality inspectors. The law formalized and expanded...

Afghanistan’s de facto Ministry of Public Health verbally directed medical institutes that female students would not be allowed to attend classes beginning 3 December. UNAMA reported the instruction...

UNAMA published a six-month review of the morality law’s implementation, enforcement and impact. Based on monitoring across Afghanistan, it described inspectors’ growing role and the law’s effects...

Russia formally recognized the Taliban government after accepting credentials from its ambassador, becoming the first state to do so since the 2021 takeover. The move signaled a diplomatic shift...