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Degrading Treatment or Punishment,6 the Convention on the Rights of the Child7 and the Geneva Convention
relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War8 and that it has signed the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,9
Recalling also all its relevant resolutions, as well as the resolutions and presidential statements of the
Security Council, the decisions of the Economic and Social Council and the resolutions and decisions of the
Commission on Human Rights,
Recalling further that the United Nations continues to play its central and impartial role in international
efforts towards a peaceful resolution of the Afghan conflict, and encouraging all efforts at the national,
regional and international levels aimed at finding a solution to the continuing conflict through a broad-based
dialogue involving all concerned actors,
1. Takes note with appreciation of the interim report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission
on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan 10 and of the conclusions and
recommendations contained therein;
2. Strongly condemns the mass killings and systematic human rights violations against civilians and
prisoners of war, including in the areas of Mazar-e Sharif and Bamian, and notes with alarm the resumption
by the Taliban of the wider conflict during the past summer, especially in the Shamali Valley, resulting in
the massive, forced displacement of the civilian population, in particular of women and children;
3. Condemns the widespread violations and abuses of human rights and humanitarian law, including
the rights to life, liberty and security of person, freedom from torture and from other forms of cruel, inhuman
or degrading treatment or punishment, freedom of opinion, expression, religion, association and movement,
the forced or compulsory recruitment of children for use in armed conflict and, in particular, the grave human
rights violations against women and girls;
4. Reiterates its condemnation of the killings of Iranian diplomats and the correspondent of the
Islamic Republic News Agency by the Taliban, which constituted flagrant violations of established
international law, as well as of the attacks on and killing of United Nations personnel in Taliban-held
territories of Afghanistan, and calls upon the Taliban to fulfil their stated commitment to cooperate in urgent
investigations of these heinous crimes with a view to bringing those responsible to justice;
5.
Notes with deep concern:
(a) The persisting pattern of human rights violations in Afghanistan;
6
Resolution 39/46, annex.
7
Resolution 44/25, annex.
8
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973.
9
Resolution 34/180, annex.
10
See A/54/422.
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