Photo: Ali Khara, Reuters via france24 The United Nations has warned that four years after the Taliban’s return to power, there is a risk...

Stephanie Luz, Head of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme office in Afghanistan, has called on the international community not to forget the people of the country, especially women and girls, in the current difficult situation.

The the Afghan Women Activist Coordinating Body, coinciding with the fourth anniversary of the Taliban’s rule, has said in a statement that during this time, the situation of women, minorities, and human rights in the country has “severely deteriorated” and the reaction of the international community to these conditions has been nothing but “empty words.”

The Taliban’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that after the publication of a joint report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and UNAMA’s Human Rights Office on Taliban reprisals against individuals who have been forcibly returned to Afghanistan, a number of UNAMA officials have been summoned to the ministry.