Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has stated that Afghan women and girls are deprived of basic freedoms ...

ISLAMABAD: In one of the recent interactions between Pakistani and Taliban officials, the presence of banned ...

Last week, the Taliban announced it was withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC), rejecting the court's ...

A UN expert on Thursday expressed concern over the escalating human rights crisis in Afghanistan, asserting that the Taliban is increasingly governing Afghan society through repression and fear. UN ...

The UN report said while IS was unable to mount large-scale attacks in India, its “handlers tried to incite lone actor ...

Otunbayeva discussed the complex interplay of humanitarian aid, geopolitical challenges, and governance in Afghanistan, ...

The meeting is scheduled as the current mandate of UNAMA will end in less than two weeks, on March 17. During this session, it is expected that Roza Otunbayeva, the UN Secretary-General’s Special ...

By Daniel Johnson in Geneva UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday called for an end to the "abhorrent, dehumanizing ...

The identities of the detainees and reasons for their arrests will be made public soon. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Taliban have threatened, assaulted and arbitrarily detained women and girls for not abiding by the prescribed dress code.

The Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group on Saturday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing of a Taliban government ...