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AFGHANISTAN: Attacks on civil society and human rights defenders intensify
04/03/2021
Paris-Geneva, March 4, 2021 – Over the past five months, the situation of human rights defenders and journalists has deteriorated significantly in Afghanistan, with at least fourteen targeted killings and constant harassment reported. The Observatory (FIDH-OMCT) expresses its utmost concern over this worrying trend and calls on the Afghan authorities to ensure that an end be put to the killings, attacks, and acts of harassment against civil society in the country.
While negotiations have been taking place between the Afghan government and the Taliban since September 12, 2020 in Doha (Qatar) to try to reach a peace agreement, the situation for civil society in the country has been rapidly deteriorating. In a report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) published on February 15, 2021, the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, M
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Paris-Geneva, March 4, 2021 – Over the past five months, the situation of human rights defenders and journalists has deteriorated significantly in Afghanistan, with at least fourteen targeted killings and constant harassment reported. The Observatory (FIDH-OMCT) expresses its utmost concern over this worrying trend and calls on the Afghan authorities to ensure that an end be put to the killings, attacks, and acts of harassment against civil society in the country.
While negotiations have been taking place between the Afghan government and the Taliban since September 12, 2020 in Doha (Qatar) to try to reach a peace agreement, the situation for civil society in the country has been rapidly deteriorating. In a report
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Violence overshadows next round of Afghan peace talks
Hopes for progress in the drawn-out talks is overshadowed by an increase in violence. Among the dozens of Afghan security forces, civilians, and Taliban fighters killed in attacks across Afghanistan this week, another journalist, Bismillah Adel Aimaq, was killed in a targeted attack in Ghor Province.
In telling remarks, Najia Anwari, a spokeswoman for the Peace Affairs Ministry, conceded that the negotiations were “a complicated process.” U.S. forces spokespeople in Afganistan publicly voiced their intention to defend Afghan forces from Taliban attacks and suggested such murders are part of a Taliban assassination campaign.
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