RASC News Agency: In light of the escalating humanitarian catastrophe and the Taliban’s sustained repression in Afghanistan, the United Nations General Assembly has announced an emergency session scheduled for Monday, July 7, to deliberate the country’s critical state. The session is expected to draw urgent international attention to the deepening crisis and its destabilizing consequences for regional and global security. Nasir Ahmad Faiq, the Chargé d’Affaires of Afghanistan’s permanent mission to the UN, stated that the core focus of the gathering will be the persistence and intensification of Afghanistan’s multidimensional crisis under Taliban rule. The agenda will center on the regime’s continued violations of fundamental human rights, the systematic marginalization of women and girls, and the broader threats posed to international peace.
According to Faiq, UN member states are anticipated to adopt a resolution reaffirming their support for the basic human rights of the Afghanistani people, particularly women and girls, who have borne the brunt of Taliban oppression. In a statement published on his official X (formerly Twitter) account, Faiq emphasized that the resolution will call upon the international community to reject the normalization of Taliban governance and to reassert its collective commitment to the dignity, freedom, and inclusion of all Afghanistanis. “The international community must not remain indifferent,” Faiq wrote. “The people of Afghanistan especially women and girls have endured nearly four years of systematic deprivation, erasure, and violence under a regime that operates with impunity. The upcoming resolution must reaffirm that the world stands with them.”
The draft resolution, he added, is expected to underscore the global community’s moral and legal obligation to uphold the universal principles of human rights and to reject any political arrangement in Afghanistan that excludes, silences, or dehumanizes half of the population. Faiq also noted that several member states will renew their call for the establishment of an inclusive, representative government in Afghanistan one that respects democratic norms, guarantees civic participation, and severs ties with extremist ideologies. The emergency session follows a recent meeting of the UN Security Council held approximately two weeks ago, during which Afghanistan’s worsening security, humanitarian, and political conditions were reviewed. Member states described the situation as increasingly volatile and reaffirmed that Taliban rule has failed to bring peace, stability, or legitimacy to the country.
Observers warn that under Taliban control, Afghanistan has devolved into a paralyzed state governed not by consensus or constitutional mandate, but by a rigid ideological apparatus that undermines basic freedoms, fuels economic collapse, and isolates the country from the international community. Despite repeated calls from Afghanistani civil society and diaspora groups, the Taliban have continued to impose draconian restrictions on women’s education, employment, and mobility, amounting to what rights experts have termed “gender apartheid.”
As the General Assembly prepares for this critical session, human rights advocates hope that the international community will not merely issue symbolic statements but will move toward coordinated action through sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and humanitarian safeguards to end impunity and to restore a future rooted in justice, inclusion, and human dignity for the people of Afghanistan.
