Local Taliban officials in Kapisa province report that a woman and her child drowned in a river in Hesa Awal Kohistan district and lost their lives.

Richard Bennett, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, in his latest report scheduled to be reviewed next week at the UN Human Rights Council meeting, has once again called for the establishment of an independent and comprehensive mechanism to respond to human rights violations in Afghanistan, particularly regarding women and girls.

The Independent Coalition of Afghanistan Women’s Protest Movements has strongly condemned the abduction and brutal murder of Kubra Rezai, a 26-year-old Afghan migrant woman in Tehran, calling it a painful manifestation of institutionalized violence and the helplessness faced by Afghan migrant women in Iran.