Notes An Insight into the State of Human Rights in Afghanistan

Abstract

Afghanistan, a victim of cold war politics and a centre of gravity in the war against terrorism from the early days of the twenty first century, has been suffering from the worst kind of human rights violations. The humanitarian assistance, disaster relief and rehabilitation process in right quantity with correct urgency, has never been witnessed in the war-torn land of the Afghan people. An objective review of the state of human rights in Afghanistan over the past three decades leads to extremely unhappy conclusions. Repeated disruption of governance after Soviet and American invasions and ethnic cleansing or factional fighting resulted in serious deviations from human rights norms. The Afghan people find themselves in a serious multidimensional humanitarian crisis which has not only taken their freedom away but also deprived them of the fundamental rights mentioned in UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) adopted by the UNO. Today Afghan inhabitants are facing all conceivable brutal methods and uncivilized suppressive techniques by the occupation forces, non-representative Afghan government, independent war-lords and the Taliban Tehreek. Almost all the human rights watchers have persistently condemned the continuous gross violations in Afghanistan but the condition does not seem to have been changed. At present, the U.S-NATO coalition carries on with its policy of brutalization of Afghanis with impunity in the name of containment of global terrorism. Despite countless reminders by international human rights associations, not much attention has been paid by world forums to address this long-standing humanitarian issue.