Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers are failing to hold their own security forces to account over allegations of abuse, a UN mission has warned.
UNAMA said that although Taliban personnel had made some arrests and opened investigations, the vast majority of complaints against security forces go unresolved.
Victims, it said, are too afraid of reprisals — and too distrustful of Taliban-run institutions — to come forward.
Women face the steepest barriers of all.
Hemmed in by restrictions on their daily lives, they are among the least likely to report abuse, the mission said.
The Taliban tore up Afghanistan’s constitution within days of seizing power in August 2021, imposing a hardline version of Sharia law in its place.
UNAMA said the move wiped out virtually the entire legal system at a stroke — including laws governing police conduct, a penal code that had criminalised murder and rape, and a ban on torture.
