Press releases

Rawadari’s Statement on Issuance of ICC Arrest Warrants for Taliban Leaders in Afghanistan 

On July 8, 2025, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Hibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban leader, and Abdul Hakim Haqqani, their Chief Justice. The warrants accus...

Reports

Torture and Ill-Treatment: The state of prisons in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan

Introduction

This report is based on direct interviews with 34 victims of arbitrary detention,...

Statements

Joint Statement on the 4th Year of Women’s and Girls’ Deprivation of the Right to Education in Afghanistan

As the 2025 academic year begins and schools reopen in Afghanistan, it marks the fourth year that women and girls in the country have been deprived of their right to secondary and higher education. Ov...

Rawadari is an Afghan human rights organisation that aims to deepen
and grow the human rights culture of Afghanistan, ultimately
reducing the suffering of all Afghans, especially women and girls.

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Testimonies

“We are powerless. The justice is in the hands of few people”

My daughter was a school student and even after the order of the Taliban Emir, she was studying in a secret school. One day on the way to school, she was arrested by some Taliban and later they accused her of adultery. The court accepted the charge against her without investigation, and sentenced her to 39 whippings in public and three years of imprison...

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