Tomorrow 21 September 📆 at 12:30pm EST ⏰ on the margins of #UNGA81, Ireland, the @MalalaFund and @UN_Partnerships will co-host a High-Level dialogue on the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan. The discussion is intended to provide a platform for Afghan women leaders, explore how we can take action to address the deteriorating human rights situation and help find pathways towards stability and justice 🕊️🇺🇳 📍Join us online at 🔗 webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1f/k1… #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #HLW

Four years since Mahsa Jina Amini was killed in state custody, Iran has increasingly become a society of grieving families. From Jina and the lives stolen during the ‘Woman Life Freedom’ uprising to the thousands massacred in January 2026, every atrocity has widened the circle of those demanding justice. For every life the Islamic Republic takes, it leaves behind families, friends and communities who will not forget. Every atrocity fuels the very movement it seeks to extinguish. The memory of Jina, Nika, Sarina, Kian, Mohsen, Majidreza and countless others lives on in a new generation determined to carry the struggle for freedom forward.

Over a 10-day period, the Trump administration sent more than 100 deportees from Afghanistan, Cuba, Nicaragua and other nations to eight countries across Africa, expanding its "third country" deportation campaign, according to internal U.S. government documents obtained by CBS News. Three Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flights, the government documents show, dropped off dozens of men and women expelled from the U.S. in several African countries including Burundi, Cameroon, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. cbsnews.com/news/ice-deporta…

باشندگان کابل از وقوع یک انفجار نیرومند در منطقه دشت برچی درغرب کابل خبر دادند. تصاویررسیده نشان می‌دهند که آمبولانس‌ها لحظاتی پس از انفجار در حال انتقال زخمی‌های این رویداد به شفاخانه‌های نزدیک هستند. به گفته منابع محلی، این انفجار در مقابل یک مکتب خصوصی در شهرک مهدیه رخ داده است. شاهدان عینی می‌گویند بیشتر قربانیان این رویداد دانش‌آموزان خردسالی هستند که تازه از مکتب رخصت شده بودند.

Statement No. 4 One month has passed since Taliban intelligence authorities raided the office of the Women and Children Legal Research Foundation (WCLRF) and detained six staff members: Sultan Ali Rahimi, Ahmad Sayem Hazim, Hamed Ahmad Sediqi, Abdul Matin Hakimi, Abdul Qadir Hamidi, and Bismillah. They remain in detention without access to legal counsel or clear information regarding the legal basis for their detention. We sincerely appreciate the continued efforts and advocacy of community leaders, human rights organizations, the media, diplomatic missions, and the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan and respectfully urge all relevant national and international actors to intensify their efforts to secure their immediate and unconditional release. They must not be forgotten. We will continue our advocacy until they are safely released and reunited with their families.

5 years after the Taliban takeover, repression of women & girls has become systemic in #Afghanistan. Germany joined the stakeout calling on the Taliban to reverse discriminatory policies, restore girls‘ access to education & ensure women’s participation in society.

While I endorse most of the message put forward by my fellow mandate holders, I did not join the statement because it describes the situation of women and girls as “gender apartheid” and calls for the codification of this concept. As I have mentioned before, it is my assessment that the current horrific treatment of women and girls in #Afghanistan amounts to “femi-genocide”: the acts to which they are subjected are intended to destroy Afghan women and girls, who qualify as a national group, in whole or in part because they are female (i.e. biologically female). Females in Afghanistan cannot identify themselves out of these experiences of subjugation and violence, nor can it be denied that Afghan society as a whole associates being female with this level of oppression, marginalization and exclusion. I am also of the view that the problem is not so much the need to coin new concepts or recognize “new” crimes, but rather the need to apply the legal frameworks and concepts we already have. For example, the crimes of genocide, gender persecution and crimes against humanity are already recognized. All States have a duty to prevent discrimination and violence against all women and girls, and not only against their own nationals. This duty extends to Afghan women and girls as well. The apathy and normalization of violence experienced by Afghan women and girls is a reflection of the regression in the respect for the rights of women and girls worldwide and their erasure of women and girls as humans that have specific needs and experiences and that are entitled to specific protections based on their sex (intersecting with other grounds) I close by saying that I of course fully respect the right of others, particularly Afghan women to disagree with my assessment and positions.