The United Nations said on Thursday that the Taliban government was committing crimes against the Afghans who are returning home from different countries, especially Iran and Pakistan.
The recent campaign launched by Pakistan and Iran deported millions of Afghans back to their country over the Taliban’s inaction to curb terrorist groups operating from Afghan soil. So far 1.9 million people have been deported to Afghanistan in 2025.
The UN statement issued alongside the report said, "People returning to the country who were at particular risk of reprisals and other human rights violations by the de facto (Taliban) authorities were women and girls, individuals affiliated with the former government and its security forces, media workers, and civil society.”
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“The violations of human rights include torture and ill-treatment, arbitrary arrest and detention, and threats to personal security." The UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) said around three million people could return to Afghanistan in 2025.
The report released by the UN assistance mission in Afghanistan and the Human rights office was primarily based on 49 interviews of Afghan returnees who were deported from the two neighbouring countries.
"Nobody should be sent back to a country where they face risk of persecution on account of their identity or personal history," UN rights Chief Volker Turk said in a statement earlier this month.
"In Afghanistan, this is even more pronounced for women and girls, who are subjected to a range of measures that amount to persecution on the basis of their gender alone," he added.
Afghanistan is currently governed by the Taliban, after they took over the country from the Afghan forces following a hasty withdrawal of the American forces from the region.
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