UPR Info

Take promptly any necessary action to comply with any findings of the review of the draft Shia Personal Status Law with the Constitution.

Take concrete measures for the realization of economic, social and cultural rights including the rights to development for the better realization of the MDGs.

Give special regard to women and children and enhance their enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Intensify its efforts for the promotion of gender equality consistent with the obligations of Afghanistan under CEDAW, including through the review and elimination of laws, customs and practices that lead to discrimination against women and girls, making available effective legal remedies for the victims of discrimination and violence, and actively promoting the participation of women and girls in different fields such as education, labour and political life.

Involve the Ministry for Women's Rights and women's rights organizations in the legislative process

Investigate all cases of arbitrary and illegal detentions with all due diligence.

Address the issue of the use of child labour in the country, while supporting and facilitating children's access to education, in particular in rural areas.

Take immediate measures in order to comply fully with the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict.

Review all its national legislation to ensure its compliance with the Constitution and international obligations, including to protect the right to privacy and non-discrimination

Continue its reconstruction efforts in cooperation with the international community, in accordance with national priorities reflected in the Afghanistan National Development Strategy

Continue to resist attempts to enforce any values or standards beyond the universally agreed human rights norms.

Take all steps necessary to combat discrimination and violence against women, both in regards to legislation and awareness-raising to ensure that women are informed of their rights.

Ensure that State institutions and the judiciary uphold human rights and that new legislation does not contravene international human rights law.

Strengthen and implement, with the support of the international community, the commitments it has made in paragraph 90 of its national report.

Consider, when possible, to gradually increase financial resources allocated to the budget of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission.

Identify specific challenges confronting the country, prioritize them in line with the needs and aspirations of its citizens and then seek support from the international community to face these challenges in a systematic and verifiable manner.

Ensure human rights and international humanitarian law education for all security forces and prison and judicial personnel and adopt further measures to ensure their full accountability for any violations of these

Investigate all allegations with respect to torture and inhuman and degrading treatment by Afghan National Police and the National Directorate of Security.

Elaborate a road map to improve prison conditions and to prevent mistreatment of prisoners.

Give priority to achieving the objectives set by its national development strategy and in particular its commitment to ensure that women take, at minimum, 35 per cent of places in professional training programmes and 20 per cent of vacant posts.

Strengthen its efforts to promote self-reliance of the returned refugees and IDPs

Ensure closure of secret and illegal jails and review conditions in all prison and detention facilities with the aim of ensuring their compliance with the Minimum Standard of Treatment of Prisoners and provide effective procedural safeguards against arbitrary detention.

Establish a human rights unit within the Ministry of Justice.

Move swiftly to pass its new Media Law.

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.

Take further measures for both the quantitative and qualitative improvement of education.

Take firm action in collaboration with the international community to decisively combat the destructive trend of drug trafficking.

Ensure that the law enforcement agencies fully observe the legal mechanism and comply with human rights principles, such as the right of the accused and suspects, in the course of carrying out their duties.

Take the necessary measures to protect journalists against intimidation, violence, censorship and abusive convictions, and have published and applied the new media law adopted by the Parliament.

Take effective action against child labour, and against smuggling or abduction, exploitation or sexual abuse of children.