This feature compiles Human Rights Watch reporting on international human rights and humanitarian law issues by all parties during the conflict and the continuing need for accountability.

The United States and coalition countries have yet to provide genuine justice or redress for war crimes and other grave abuses in Afghanistan in the 25 years since the war began on October 7, 2001.

Without warning, Pakistan has directed all medical and dental institutions to expel Afghan students and arrange to send them back to Afghanistan. It is the latest move by Pakistani authorities to summ...

The Taliban’s authoritarian rule isn’t uniformly enforced. International accountability can exploit those divisions, preserving evidence for future justice while improving conditions for some Afghans ...

Without warning, Pakistan has directed all medical and dental institutions to expel Afghan students and arrange to send them back to Afghanistan. It is the latest move by Pakistani authorities to summ...

We thank the Special Rapporteur for his latest report, which provides a stark account of developments over the past year and exposes the devastating impact of five years of Taliban policies on childre...

A Conversation with Human Rights Watch Afghanistan Researcher Fereshta Abbasi

A Conversation with Human Rights Watch Afghanistan Researcher Fereshta Abbasi

It’s the height of hypocrisy to condemn Taliban abuses in one breath and cooperate in sending people back to them in the next.

Nearly five years after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, one issue should be beyond dispute: Afghanistan is not safe for anyone forcibly returned there. Governments are fully aware ...

It’s the height of hypocrisy to condemn Taliban abuses in one breath and cooperate in sending people back to them in the next.

It’s the height of hypocrisy to condemn Taliban abuses in one breath and cooperate in sending people back to them in the next.

Cinq ans après la chute de Kaboul et la prise de pouvoir par les talibans, la chercheuse de Human Rights Watch, Fereshta Abbasi, dresse un bilan très sombre du quotidien des Afghans, entre transgress…

It’s the height of hypocrisy to condemn Taliban abuses in one breath and cooperate in sending people back to them in the next.

At South Africa’s National Women’s Day commemoration on August 9, President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke, among other things, about the Taliban’s systematic oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan. Stan...

Afghanistan’s Taliban have entrenched one of the world’s worst human rights crises and systematically dismantled the rights of women and girls since taking power five years ago.

O Talibã do Afeganistão consolidou uma das piores crises de direitos humanos do mundo e desmantelou sistematicamente os direitos das mulheres e meninas desde que assumiu o poder há cinco anos.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Afghans and people who do not conform to rigid gender norms in Afghanistan have faced an increasingly desperate situation and grave threats to their safet...

دیده‌بان حقوق بشر امروز با نشر گاه‌شمار نقض حقوق بشر در افغانستان در پنج سال گذشته، اعلام کرد که طالبان از زمانی که پنج سال پیش قدرت را تصرف کردند، یکی از بدترین بحران‌های حقوق بشر در جهان را تثبیت کر...

د طالبانو له بیا واکمنېدو څخه د پنځو کلونو په تېرېدو، په افغانستان کې طالبانو د نړۍ له تر ټولو سختو بشري حقونو بحرانونو څخه یو هغه بحران لا ژور کړی او د ښځو او نجونو حقونه یې په منظم ډول له منځه وړي د...

August 15, 2026 will mark five years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. Over the last five years, the Taliban’s increasingly draconian policies have made Afghanistan one of the world’...

August 15, 2026 will mark five years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. Over the last five years, the Taliban’s increasingly draconian policies have made Afghanistan one of the world’...

Afghanistan’s Taliban have entrenched one of the world’s worst human rights crises and systematically dismantled the rights of women and girls since taking power five years ago.

Afghanistan’s Taliban have entrenched one of the world’s worst human rights crises and systematically dismantled the rights of women and girls since taking power five years ago.

A man in western Afghanistan recently told me that his neighbors knock on his door to ask for food. A man in the capital, Kabul, said, “I can no longer feed my children properly,” and described how th...

A man in western Afghanistan recently told me that his neighbors knock on his door to ask for food. A man in the capital, Kabul, said, “I can no longer feed my children properly,” and described how th...

On June 29, Pakistani airstrikes in three provinces in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 28 civilians and wounded at least 49, including among them women and children.

The European Union hosted a delegation of Taliban officials in Brussels on June 22 for the first time since the group returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021.

The European Union hosted a delegation of Taliban officials in Brussels on June 22 for the first time since the group returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021.

A U.S. report on the Afghan War is due soon, and a new international review is beginning. Both must confront war crimes and crimes against humanity by all sides.

A U.S. report on the Afghan War is due soon, and a new international review is beginning. Both must confront war crimes and crimes against humanity by all sides.

The European Parliament approved on Wednesday an overhaul of migration policy aimed at ramping up deportations and ​allowing member states to set up detention centres abroad, in what critics describe ...