UPR Info

Enact legislation and take effective measures to protect and promote women's rights, especially with regard to forced marriages, honour killings and access to education for all girls.

Include civil society and human rights defenders in the development of legislation and decision-making processes, through an institutionalized consultation process.

Investigate fully and effectively harassment and attacks on journalists and bring those responsible to justice.

Strengthen its efforts to ensure access to education - and to health care - for all its citizens, including those with disabilities, regardless of ethnicity, religion, tribal affiliation or economic status.

Investigate thoroughly all acts of violence against women and defenders of women's rights and bring those responsible to justice.

Promote a public discussion on women's rights and encourage influential men- whether elders, clerics, politicians or others - to participate in this discussion and raise awareness, especially amongst boys, of the importance of seeing women and girls as equal and respected partners in society.

Persevere in fighting corruption, in educating its people and especially its children, and in further empowering its womenfolk for greater participation in all sectors.

Commit resources to enforce existing legislation to protect women, and equip courts and police to fully protect the rights of all women and enhance their access to justice, any new legislation should protect those rights.

Persevere in its praiseworthy efforts to promote women's rights, continue to attach high levels of importance to the human rights culture and pursue its dissemination among young generations within the framework of educational programmes.

Pursue with resolve the implementation of different measures aimed at reforming and strengthening the existing judicial system.

Take steps to adopt a legal framework to protect children from trafficking and to define trafficking as a criminal offence under domestic law.

Implement measures to protect detainees from torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and ensure that all cases of persons detained are brought to the attention of the judiciary without delay.

Sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture

Consider facilitating visits by human rights mandate holders.

Amend any articles of the Personal Status Law that breach Afghanistan's international obligations or its Constitutional protection of the equal rights of men and women

Take initiatives to strengthen gender mainstreaming and women's rights.

Integrate the gender perspective in the follow-up process to the UPR.

Consider taking substantial measures, such as requesting capacity-building assistance, to advance the understanding of human rights and criminal investigation ability of police personnel

Speed up the implementation of legal framework, as well as improve systems and procedures for the administration of justice and to make further progress on public governance

Ensure that the Law of Libel is not utilised in such a manner as to stifle honest and professional reporting

Continue its cooperation with the international community, especially in two fields: the solution of problems of refugees and IDPs. and in its 2006-2015 State program on poverty alleviation and development

Consider modifying or repealing the criminal legislation on defamation to take away the possibility of depriving anyone of his or her liberty on account of opinions

Improve the administration of justice, including the establishment of a system of inspection of detention centres and a system to follow-up complaints of allegations of torture

That all journalists remaining in detention on the basis of misuse of criminal libel or defamation trials be released

Consider the possibility of acceding to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Consider the possibility of acceding to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.

Ensure that cases of alleged violence against, and wrongful imprisonment of members of the media are fully investigated

Consider the possibility of acceding to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Consider the possibility of acceding to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.

Consider the possibility of acceding to the other major human rights instruments, in particular the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.