Dialogue with the Taliban must be conditional on respecting the fundamental rights of the Afghan people.

Dialogue with the Taliban must be conditional on respecting the fundamental rights of the Afghan people.

Afghan News
On the second day of the 54th meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Nasir Ahmed Andisheh, the representative of Afghanistan in the United Nations Human Rights Council, said:

Dialogue with the Taliban should be conditional and focused on their respect for human rights and the fundamental rights of the Afghan people.

The actions of the Taliban have undermined the protection of human rights in Afghanistan at all stages. The Taliban’s restrictions on women’s right to work and study have affected the humanitarian and economic crisis in Afghanistan and deepened poverty in families.

With such restrictions, more women and families face poverty, access to health services worsens, and polio remains in Afghanistan.

We call for proactive measures to combat the “culture of impunity” in Afghanistan and to hold perpetrators of human rights violations accountable, as well as urgent humanitarian aid to respond to the human rights crisis in Afghanistan.