Strengthening the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in Afghanistan

Strongly urges all parties to the conflict to respect their obligations under international law, including international human rights law and international humanitarian law, as applicable, and also urges them to respect the right to liberty of movement and the freedom to leave the country;

Urges the international community to remain engaged with an inclusive and representative Afghanistan and its people along political, humanitarian, human rights and development tracks, and calls upon all parties to the conflict to allow immediate, safe and unhindered humanitarian access for United Nations humanitarian agencies and other humanitarian actors, providing assistance, including across conflict lines, to ensure that humanitarian assistance reaches all those in need;

Also urges the international community, including donors and international humanitarian actors, to provide adequate urgent humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan and major refugee-hosting countries, including with regard to the allocation of COVID-19 vaccines in order to expedite the inoculation of Afghan refugees against the disease;

Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to present to the Human Rights Council, at its forty-eighth session, an oral update on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, and to present to the Council, at its forty-ninth session, a comprehensive written report focusing on, inter alia, the accountability of all perpetrators of human rights violations and abuses in the conflict, to be followed by an interactive dialogue;