{"id":9495,"date":"2022-04-13T12:17:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=9495"},"modified":"2022-10-15T14:17:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T14:17:59","slug":"us-reports-steep-drop-in-human-rights-progress-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/04\/us-reports-steep-drop-in-human-rights-progress-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"US reports ‘steep drop’ in human rights progress in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONITORING (SW) – An official report released by the State Department has acknowledged a steep drop in human rights progress in Afghanistan following the United States\u2019 withdrawal last August.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The 2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, which outlines human rights progress in United Nations member states and countries receiving aid from the U.S., identified \u201csignificant human rights issues\u201d in Afghanistan \u2014 both before and after the Taliban seized control of the capital, Kabul, on Aug. 15.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Taliban takeover precipitated a humanitarian crisis and has resulted in serious erosion of human rights,\u201d Secretary of State Antony Blinken said while announcing the report.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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This year\u2019s report \u2014 the 46th annual iteration \u2014 repeatedly mentions the \u201cpre-August 15 [2021] government,\u201d referring to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which collapsed last year. The U.S. does not recognize the Taliban or any other entity as Afghanistan\u2019s current governing body, the report says.<\/p>\n

According to a Politico new report, in August 2021, after the U.S. began its withdrawal from the country and the democratically elected Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, fled, the Taliban installed an interim government. The United States\u2019 rushed military withdrawal, widely considered to be a strategic\u00a0and managerial failure,\u00a0was completed by Aug. 30.<\/p>\n

The report identified a number of serious human rights violations under Taliban rule, including reprisal killings by Taliban fighters; the removal of women and minority groups from leadership; serious restrictions on free speech; and bans on women from working or receiving an education.<\/p>\n

In discussing China, the report echoed its 2020 language, citing \u201cgenocide and crimes against humanity\u201d against Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities. It also identified efforts to repress Hong Kong and Tibet.<\/p>\n

Both the China and Russia reports were strikingly similar to the respective 2020 reports, echoing the same warnings \u2014 word for word, in many places \u2014 of human rights violations and authoritarian leadership.<\/p>\n

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Though the report deals with human rights progress in calendar year 2021, its prologue denounced Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine \u2014 which began earlier this year \u2014 as evidence of human rights violations globally.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe information contained in these reports could not be more vital or urgent given ongoing human rights abuses and violations in many countries, continued democratic backsliding on several continents, and creeping authoritarianism that threatens both human rights and democracy \u2014 most notably, at present, with Russia\u2019s unprovoked attack on Ukraine,\u201d the report reads.<\/p>\n

Blinken said that an \u201calarming recession of democracy\u201d and respect for human rights had been ongoing for years, but that the war on Ukraine had drawn global attention to the issues at stake.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn few places have the human consequences of this decline been as stark as they are in the Russian government\u2019s brutal war on Ukraine,\u201d Blinken said.<\/p>\n

Blinken also warned that governments are \u201cgrowing more brazen\u201d in crossing borders \u201cto threaten and attack critics.\u201d He mentioned an effort by Iranian government officials to\u00a0kidnap an Iranian-American journalist\u00a0in New York last summer.<\/p>\n

Blinken noted that the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, housed within the State Department, still does not have a Senate-confirmed assistant secretary. He called on the Senate to confirm President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee, Sarah Margon<\/p>\n

ENDS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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