Rights Rollback in Afghanistan: Daily Brief
Rollback of women’s and girls’ rights in Afghanistan, and credible response needed to human rights crisis in the country; US must end war on terror; hope for refugee children’s education in Greece; repression in Tunisia proliferates; new UN envoy for Yemen should press all parties to the conflict to end abuses; murders of environmental defenders hit record high; and authorities in eastern Libya release photojournalist.
With women being prohibited from speaking to men in offices and universities, excluded from the cabinet and banned from sports the rollback of women’s and girls’ rights has begun in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, 54 civil society organizations have called on UN member states to deliver a credible response to the escalating human rights crisis in Afghanistan at the upcoming session of the UN Human Rights Council.
To stop the many abuses associated with the global war on terror, US President Joe Biden should end it.
As in-person schooling begins again today in Greece, there is hope that all migrant and refugee children will be able to get back into some form of education. Last year, fewer than 1 in 7 children living in camps in Greece attended school at all.
Arbitrary and politically motivated acts of repression have proliferated in Tunisia since President Kais Saied suspended parliament in July.
The new United Nations special envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, should press all parties to the armed conflict that has killed almost a quarter of a million people, and resulted in the world's worst humanitarian crisis, to end human rights abuses.
A record number of activists working to protect the environment and land rights were murdered last year, according to a report by Global Witness.
And lastly: Authorities in Benghazi, eastern Libya, have released photojournalist Ismail Abuzreiba Al-Zway after 3 years of arbitrary detention.