The latest report released by the organization demanded the protection of women and other unprotected sectors due to the limitations imposed by the Government.

The Taliban violate fundamental guarantees by implementing a system of total discrimination, exclusion and subjugation of women and girls, the report denounced.

Women and girls live in a system of segregation and persecution where, for example, they are exposed to punishments such as the prohibition to work or go to school in various provinces of the country.

The rapporteurs expressed concern about other reports on summary executions and acts equivalent to forced disappearances, widespread arbitrary detentions, torture and ill-treatment, and displacements.

They also recognized other affected populations such as ethnic and religious minorities, people with disabilities, the displaced, members of the LGBTIQ+ community, human rights defenders and other civil society actors.

“(The Taliban) have introduced the use of cruel and undignified punishments, such as stoning, flogging and burial under a wall, in contravention of international human rights standards,” they stressed.

In these circumstances, the UN experts called on the international community to ensure that political engagement with all Afghan interlocutors focuses on fundamental guarantees. In addition, they requested that all Afghan women and girls be granted refugee status due to the hardships they are subjected to.

The rise to power of the Taliban resulted in “a continuous, systematic and scandalous annulment of several human rights, including the right to education, work and freedom of expression, assembly and association,” they stressed.

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