Afghanistan, South Korea and Venezuela lost their bids on Tuesday to serve three-year terms on the UN Human Rights Council. With nearly all the 193-member states voting in the General Assembly, Algeria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Chile, Costa Rica, Georgia, Germany, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Morocco, Romania, South Africa, Sudan, and Vietnam were voted onto the 47-member Geneva-based rights body. Afghanistan lost its bid […]

The European Union’s foreign policy chief on Monday criticized the lack of international attention being paid to Afghanistan despite the suffering of the people. In a speech to EU ambassadors on Monday, Joseph Borrell told countries not to only look at the Ukrainian crisis. “Last year, everybody was talking about Afghanistan. Afghanistan was the big issue, remember in August [and] […]

Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has told the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Affairs of Afghanistan that the organization should work with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) instead of criticizing it. He said the days of warlords, kidnappers and land grabbers violating people’s rights was over. “Instead of criticizing each other, we should cooperate, publish the facts […]

Countries in the region and beyond should support Afghanistan and view the security in the country as an opportunity, Abdul Salam Hanafi, deputy prime minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) said on Wednesday. Hanafi said this in a seminar in Kabul under the theme “Afghanistan and Regional connectivity; Opportunities and Challenges.” He also reiterated calls to the world […]