KABUL (SW) – The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission has urged the government to publicize findings of the so many fact-finding commissions it has set up over past many years on different matters.
In the ongoing series of accountability drive press conferences, officials of the AIHRC said that although fact-finding commissions have been appointed after suicide incidents, explosions and armed attacks, these commissions do not share the results of their assessments with the people.
Naeem Nazari, deputy head of the (AIHRC), said on the occasion that such commissions should share their findings with the people while only preserving the classified details.
This was for the first time that the AIHRC officials appeared before press for details about its activities in past one year.
In 2020, the deputy head of the commission said that 5,175 incidents of violence have been registered in the organization, of which 1,167 had been identified as human rights violations. According to the officials of the commission, out of the total number of incidents of violence, 1,973 cases are related to cases of violence against women.
The deputy head of the AIHRC called the security situation in the country as ‘catastrophic’. Referring to the increase in targeted assassinations, he said, such killings, which include journalists, members of civil society and human rights, have doubled.
He called on the government to take precautionary measures to improve the security situation.
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