RASC News Agency: The United Nations Human Rights Council has put the review of the human rights situation in Afghanistan as a priority on its agenda in third meeting this year.
This meeting started on Monday, September 11, in Genoa, the European headquarters of the United Nations, and is scheduled to continue for five weeks.
The first session of the Law Council has been held under the leadership of Vaslav Balk, the ambassador of the Czech Republic, and Volker Turk, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, will speak at its opening.
According to the agenda of this meeting, Richard Bennett, the UN special rapporteur on human rights for Afghanistan, is supposed to speak on the first day of this meeting and report on the human rights situation in this country.
A major part of this meeting is devoted to the review of the human rights situation in Afghanistan and based on what has been announced so far, there will be a discussion on Tuesday about the report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation in Afghanistan.
In this meeting, the students of Afghanistan’s National Institute of Music, who are in Portugal, have been invited to perform a program.
On the sidelines of this meeting, a number of civil activists, especially Afghanistani women and human rights activists, are planning to hold protest conferences.
In this UN Human Rights Council meeting, in addition to the human rights situation in Afghanistan, the human rights situation in Myanmar, Sudan, Ukraine, Haiti and Belarus will also be examined.
This meeting was held while a number of Afghanistani women activists in Germany started a hunger strike to recognize “gender apartheid” in Afghanistan.
