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Updated Q&As on the Establishment of an Independent International Accountability Mechanism for Afghanistan

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Since 2021, Afghan and international civil society organizations, including WILPF, have called for an independent accountability mechanism to investigate and collect, analyse, and preserve evidence of grave violations and abuses in Afghanistan, aiming to address entrenched impunity, advance accountability, and support victims’ rights to justice, truth, and reparation.

On 6 September 2024, over 90 organisations, including WILPF, called on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC57) to establish a comprehensive investigative mechanism for Afghanistan. That same month, WILPF with Amnesty International, the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Human Rights Watch, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) reiterated that call in a joint letter and Questions and Answers (Q&As) outlining the proposed mandate.

Following HRC57, WILPF and partner NGOs published this updated Q&A, building on the HRC57 resolution on Afghanistan and the OHCHR Stocktaking report on accountability options for Afghanistan (UN document A/HRC/57/22).

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