A/HRC/RES/51/20 in continuing to carry out essential work, including documenting and reporting, in challenging circumstances, Deeply concerned about the increasing erosion of respect for the human rights of women and girls in Afghanistan by the Taliban, including the imposition of restrictions that limit the enjoyment of the rights to education, 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 women’s full, equal and meaningful participation in public life, and emphasizing that these restrictions contradict the expectations of the international community and the commitment made by the Taliban to the Afghan people, Reaffirming the importance of the full, equal and meaningful participation of women in planning and decision-making with regard to governance, mediation, confidence-building, and conflict prevention and resolution, and of their involvement in all efforts to maintain and promote peace and security, and the need to prevent and redress human rights violations and abuses, including those relating to all forms of violence against women and girls, especially sexual and gender-based violence, and child, early and forced marriage, Expressing deep concern at the continued prevalence of violence and discrimination against women and girls in Afghanistan, in all their different forms and manifestations, including sexual and gender-based violence and multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination against women, emphasizing that discrimination and violence against women and girls violate, abuse and impair their enjoyment of human rights, and stressing that perpetrators of crimes involving human rights violations and abuses must be brought to justice and the critical need for victims and survivors to be provided with effective redress, support and remedies, Recognizing that the full, equal and meaningful participation, inclusion and empowerment of all women and girls in all spheres of life are essential for sustainable peace and full and complete economic and social development, as well as the realization and enjoyment of all human rights of all persons in Afghanistan, Recalling the obligations of Afghanistan under international human rights law and international humanitarian law as expressed in, inter alia, the treaties and conventions to which it is a party, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Recalling also that Afghanistan has been a State party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court since 1 May 2003, Acknowledging the efforts of numerous States to evacuate and relocate Afghans wishing to leave the country, and emphasizing the need to support neighbouring countries that are sheltering large numbers of refugees and other people from Afghanistan deserving international protection, while reiterating the importance of protecting their rights and protecting them against refoulement, Acknowledging also the efforts of neighbouring and other countries in facilitating the delivery of humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, in collaboration with the United Nations and other international agencies and partners, Emphasizing that sustainable peace in Afghanistan can only be achieved through an inclusive, just, durable and realistic political settlement that reflects the choice of the Afghan people and upholds the enjoyment of human rights of all persons, including for all women and girls, children and persons belonging to minorities, Recognizing that the full realization of the right to education for all is an essential condition for achieving sustainable development and a multiplier right that supports the empowerment of all women and girls to exercise their human rights, including the right to participate in the conduct of public affairs and in economic, social and cultural life, and to 3