| Title | Women in Afghanistan: a Human Rights Catastrophe |
| Publisher | Amnesty International |
| Publication Date | 18 May 1995 |
| Country | Afghanistan |
| Topics | Abduction | Armed attacks on camps | Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements | Extrajudicial executions | Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment | Gender-based persecution | Gross, systematic and large-scale | Human rights and fundamental freedoms | Impunity | Mental health | Political situation | Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) | Protection of civilian persons in time of war | SGBV | Women's rights |
| Citation / Document Symbol | ASA 11/003/1995 |
| Cite as | Amnesty International, Women in Afghanistan: a Human Rights Catastrophe, 18 May 1995, ASA 11/003/1995, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6a9c9c.html [accessed 21 December 2015] |
| Comments | This report covers the period between April 1992, when Mujahideen groups took power in the capital, Kabul, and late 1994. All the cases cited are based on in-depth interviews conducted by Amnesty International with Afghan refugees who had recently arrived in Pakistan and other countries. The report calls on the Afghan government and the leaders of all the armed political groups in Afghanistan to implement measures immediately to stop their forces abusing human rights and to ensure that women's human rights are respected. It also urges the international community to take urgent action to help end the human rights disaster that is continuing unabated in Afghanistan. |
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