Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, warns that the international community should not only be limited to issuing statements regarding human rights violations in Afghanistan and that practical and more serious measures must be taken in hand to support Afghan women and girls.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says that following the Taliban’s ban on female employees, eight service centers for returnees in Afghanistan have been closed.

The Taliban government has announced a ban on the activities of visual media in Panjshir province, an action that Nai in Exile has described as another sign of the “weakening of freedom of expression” in Afghanistan.

An American woman who was detained by the Taliban for a period has described the condition of “Peter,” 80, and “Barbie Reynolds,” 76, the British couple imprisoned by the Taliban, as “horrific.”