{"id":21288,"date":"2026-09-07T12:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/07\/afghanistan-human-rights-situation-un-rights-council-geneva\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T12:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:32:18","slug":"afghanistan-human-rights-situation-un-rights-council-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/07\/afghanistan-human-rights-situation-un-rights-council-geneva\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan&#8217;s Human Rights Situation to Be Reviewed at UN Rights Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council opened on Monday, Sept. 16, in Geneva, with the human rights situation in Afghanistan, along with Sudan and Myanmar, on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Nasir Ahmad Andisha, Afghanistan&#8217;s representative in Geneva, said Richard Bennett, the UN human rights rapporteur for Afghanistan, will also present his six-month report to the council today. According to him, the report focuses mainly on the situation of children and adolescents in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Andisha added that Afghanistan&#8217;s mission in Geneva and a number of human rights defenders will also speak at the Human Rights Council session about the situation in Afghanistan. He also said that, on the sidelines of the session, meetings will be held with the participation of Afghanistan&#8217;s mission and human rights organizations on the situation in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The session is being held in Geneva, the main seat of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and is scheduled to continue for one month. The Human Rights Council is one of the UN&#8217;s key bodies for examining cases of human rights violations in different countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Human Rights Council opens its 63rd session in Geneva, with Afghanistan&#8217;s rights situation on the agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}