T he UN's Volker Turk has repeated an appeal to Afghanistan's Taliban to revoke the "deeply discriminatory decree." An Afghan ministry recently told NGOs they would lose their licenses if they ...

UN human rights chief Volker Turk has said that Afghanistan's governing Taliban authorities must reverse their ban on Afghan women working for NGOs. Since the Taliban's return to power in August ...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk launched a four-week ... warnings about the treatment of women in Taliban-led Afghanistan and Ukrainians under near-constant Russian ...

Volker Turk, the UN high commissioner ... further deepens the erosion of human rights in Afghanistan." In a June 13 statement, he called on the Taliban to "rescind all laws, instructions, edicts ...

But 23 years after 9/11, the Taliban hold ... U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk said this week. He added, “I shudder to think what is next for the women and girls of Afghanistan.