A/HRC/RES/57/3 Recalling its thirty-first special session on the serious human rights concerns and situation in Afghanistan, its resolutions S-31/1 of 24 August 2021, 48/1 of 7 October 2021, in which the Council appointed a special rapporteur to monitor the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, 50/14 of 8 July 2022, 51/20 of 7 October 2022 and 54/1 of 11 October 2023 and all relevant resolutions adopted by the General Assembly and the Security Council on the situation in Afghanistan, on children and armed conflict and on women and peace and security, Recalling also the statements made by the Secretary-General, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, the Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, those by several special procedures of the Human Rights Council and treaty bodies on reports of human rights violations and abuses in Afghanistan, including those committed by the Taliban, and the independent assessment on Afghanistan undertaken by the Special Coordinator, in which a performance-based road map for engagement with the Taliban is outlined, including human rights benchmarks, 1 Recalling further the stocktaking of accountability options and processes for human rights violations and abuses in Afghanistan included in the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, presented to the Human Rights Council at the fifty-seventh session, and the general principles outlined therein for continuing accountability efforts,2 Deeply concerned about the deteriorating situation of human rights in Afghanistan, in particular the continued violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law, including those systematically targeting women and girls and those involving summary or extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions, forced displacement, collective punishment, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees, sexual and gender-based violence, violence against peaceful protesters, reprisals, raids on offices of nongovernmental organizations and civil society groups and violations and abuses, committed by the Taliban and other actors, of the human rights of all women, children, older persons, journalists and media workers, human rights defenders and members of their families, lawyers, judges, prosecutors, prisoners, internally displaced persons, former government officials and former armed forces members, cultural workers, artists and musicians, members of ethnic and religious minorities, persons belonging to other vulnerable or marginalized groups and persons in situations of vulnerability, Expressing alarm at the findings of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan in its human rights monitoring and reporting, Expressing serious concern about the grave, worsening, widespread and systematic oppression of all women and girls in Afghanistan by the Taliban, which, as documented by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan,3 has put in place an institutionalized system of discrimination, segregation, disrespect for human dignity and the exclusion of women and girls through, inter alia, so-called laws such as the recent so-called “Law on propagation of virtue and prevention of vice”, edicts, policies and practices targeting women and girls, the undermining of legal protections and accountability mechanisms for sexual and gender-based violence and the ongoing denial of human rights, which may amount to persecution on the grounds of gender, Deeply concerned about the continuing, systematic, systemic and all-encompassing erosion of respect for the human rights of all women and girls in Afghanistan by the Taliban, including the imposition of restrictions that limit the enjoyment of the rights to education, the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, work, freedom of movement, freedom of expression, freedom of opinion and freedom of peaceful assembly and association, and of women’s full, equal meaningful and safe participation in public life, 1 2 3 2 S/2023/856, annex. A/HRC/57/22. See A/HRC/56/25.