Afghanistan, Dec. 11 -- The UN Security Council warns Afghanistan's human rights situation is sharply deteriorating as new restrictions intensify pressure on women, journalists, civil society and daily freedoms.
The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, 10 December, voiced deep concern over Afghanistan's worsening human rights situation and urged the Taliban to reverse policies that have intensified the country's humanitarian and economic crises.
Georgette Gagnon, acting head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), told the Council that women and girls remain largely excluded from education, employment, and public life. She warned that tightening media restrictions and growing enforcement of the Taliban's "morality" c...