GENEVA – UN experts* today called on the international community to reject the Taliban’s violent and authoritarian rule and resist any moves towards normalising the de facto authorities’ regime, four years after the group seized power in Afghanistan. “For four years the people of Afghanistan, especially women and girls, have endured a relentless and escalating assault on their fundamental rights and freedoms,” the experts said. “Operating without legitimacy, the Taliban enforces an institutionalised system of gender oppression, crushes dissent, exacts reprisals, and muzzles independent media while showing outright contempt for…
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 14 August 2025. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.
