Kabul, Aug. 6 -- A new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has stated that the international community has failed to take meaningful action to stop ongoing human rights abuses in Afghanistan since the Taliban took over in 2021, Khaama Press reported.

In a statement released on Tuesday to mark the fourth anniversary of the Taliban's return to power, HRW said that despite extensive documentation of the group's abuses--including bans on girls' education, extreme restrictions on women, suppression of dissent, and arbitrary arrests of journalists--no meaningful accountability mechanism has been established.

As per Khaama Press, the organisation urged the UN Human Rights Council to urgently create an independent international body to monitor, ...