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Global resources and information on the situation in #Afghanistan
Report on threats to former Afghan security and civilian personnel:
Report of The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) and Afghan Peace Watch (APW) Tracking Disorder During Taliban Rule in Afghanistan (2022): https://afghanpeacewatch.org/files/ACLED_APW_Report_Tracking-Disorder-During-Taliban-Rule-in-Afghanistan_WebFin_2022.pdf
News and Briefings:
Information on Women and Girls: https://afghanpeacewatch.org/category/afghan-women/
Information on the Security Situation: https://afghanpeacewatch.org/category/security/
Afghan Witness: Human Rights Reporting from Afghanistan
For witnesses to human rights violations and journalists:
Upload your evidence here: https://www.afghanwitness.org
Reports on security and threats to women and girls:
Reports on armed groups’ activities including Taliban, ISKP: https://www.afghanwitness.org/reports
Report on women and girls: https://www.afghanwitness.org/reports/one-year-on%3A-how-life-has-changed-for-afghanistan’s-women-and-girls--
Individual stories covering journalists, judges, prosecutors, civil servants, aid workers, doctors, LGBTQ+ individuals, human and women’s rights defenders and entrepreneurs:
Human Rights Watch (Afghanistan)
Reports and videos on human rights violations targeting:
LGBT people: https://www.hrw.org/asia/afghanistan
Religious and ethnic minorities (ISIS attacks): https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/09/06/afghanistan-isis-group-targets-religious-minorities
News and Briefings
Briefing to UK Parliament on categories of individuals at threat and in need of assistance to resettle in the UK and elsewhere: https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/09/12/international-criminal-court-should-reach-decision-afghanistan
Disability rights violations: https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/09/08/afghan-disability-rights-advocate-honored
Executions and forced disappearances: https://www.hrw.org/asia/afghanistan
International Criminal Court: https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/09/12/international-criminal-court-should-reach-decision-afghanistan
UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Report on threats to women, journalists and religious and ethnic minorities:
Situation of human rights in Afghanistan: Report of the Special Rapporteur 09 Sept 2022. Covers discrimination and violence against women, journalists, and religious and ethnic minorities and conflict-related human rights violations and restrictions on human rights: https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ahrc516-situation-human-rights-afghanistan-report-special-rapporteur
To report human rights concerns in Afghanistan with confidentiality. Please contact the following email:
Updates and Urgent UN Debates
Global Friends of Afghanistan welcomes, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken creating the Alliance for Afghan Women’s Economic Resilience (AWER).
"AWER is a new public-private partnership between the Department of State and Boston University that aims to catalyze business, philanthropic, and civil society commitments to advance Afghan women’s entrepreneurship, employment, and educational opportunities in Afghanistan and third countries."
This is a great move for the Afghan people.
For more details about AWER please contact Radhika Prabhu, PrabhuRG@state.gov.
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