The UN experts urged the global community to respond more forcefully to the worsening human rights situation in Afghanistan.

GENEVA - The Taliban's increasing use of judicially-sanctioned corporal punishment, inflicted in public, often for so called moral crimes in ...

A judicial regulation signed by the leadership of the Islamic Emirate in 2026 institutionalizes a penal hierarchy based on social status. The text ...

UN experts on Thursday urged Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban to immediately impose a moratorium on inhumane punishments, including capital and corporal punishments, in response to public executions ...