By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews Online, June 19, 2023 at 9:05 PMThe participants of the “1st Meeting – 53rd Regular Session of the Human Rights Council,” in Geneva expressed concerns about the human rights situation in Afghanistan. The UN Human Rights Council’s special rapporteur for Afghan human rights, Richard Bennett, told the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva that the Afghan “de facto authorities must be required to comply with the international human rights…
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by Arjun Poudel in Kathmandu Post, April 3, 2023Amid a rise in new cases of the coronavirus, concerns have grown about hundreds of thousands of children above five years old who have not yet been vaccinated against Covid. Officials at the Ministry of Health and Population estimated that there could be around one million children above five years old who have not received even a single dose of the vaccine. “Hundreds of thousands of children…
by Tahir Khan in Dawn, February 8th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Saudi diplomats’ departure from Kabul amid security concerns has sparked fears that at least three other countries were also planning to close their embassies in Afghanistan, though Taliban and other officials have dismissed such reports. An Afghan Taliban official has confirmed to Dawn that Saudi Arabia has withdrawn its staff, but said the Saudis “have told us that they have withdrawn embassy staff for a week-long training”.…