{"id":21344,"date":"2026-09-08T07:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T07:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/08\/hazara-repression-afghanistan-un-human-rights-council\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T07:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T07:10:19","slug":"hazara-repression-afghanistan-un-human-rights-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/08\/hazara-repression-afghanistan-un-human-rights-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights Activist Calls for Special Review of Hazara Repression in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humaira Razayi, a human rights activist, called for a special review of the situation of the Hazaras in Afghanistan at a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, saying violations against the community, from targeted attacks to discrimination, forced displacement and land seizures, continue systematically.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the meeting on Monday, 16 Sunbula, she said incidents such as the explosion at Shama Hedayat School and the detention of women in Herat were examples of repression against the Hazaras. Razayi urged the international community to pay immediate attention to the situation of this community.<\/p>\n<p>The human rights activist called on the United Nations to document crimes committed against the Hazaras and hold those responsible to account. She also stressed the need for a special review of the Hazaras&#8217; situation within the UN&#8217;s human rights mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p>Razayi further called for safe asylum routes to be maintained for the Hazaras and urged European countries to respect the principle of non-refoulement.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of September 25, which is referred to as the &#8220;Day of Remembrance for the Genocide of the Hazaras,&#8221; she called for recognition of this genocide, as well as justice and compensation for the victims. The UN Human Rights Council is one of the organization&#8217;s main bodies for reviewing cases of human rights violations in different countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A human rights activist urged the UN to review repression of Hazaras in Afghanistan and call perpetrators to account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21344","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\/21344","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=21344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}