FAROE 2025 Annual Conference

FAROE 2025 Annual Conference

On the occasion of Human Rights Day

Title: “The World and the Human Rights Crisis in Afghanistan”

Date: Sunday, 7 December 2025
Venue: Online – via Zoom

Organizer: FAROE

Resolution

The Human Rights Day Conference of the Federation of Afghan Organizations in

Europe (FAROE) was held virtually with the participation of national and international

speakers who presented documented analyses and findings. Participants welcomed the

establishment of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Afghanistan (IIM-A) for

investigating human rights violations, war crimes, and systematic documentation of

these incidents, while expressing deep concern over the deteriorating human rights

situation in Afghanistan.

Reports and expert opinions delivered during the event reaffirmed that Afghanistan

remains one of the most vulnerable contexts for human rights. Systematic violations of

fundamental freedoms, structural restrictions and institutionalized discrimination imposed on women and girls, violent treatment of citizens, , and deliberate elimination of civil liberties, structural repression, and intentional cultural erasure under the Taliban regime.

Speakers warned that the declining global attention to Afghanistan’s human rights crisis

and the trend toward normalizing engagement with the Taliban risk enabling gradual

legitimization of Taliban ideology, threatening the complete exclusion of women and

dissenting citizens from public life.

Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international conventions, and

binding legal frameworks, the conference highlights the following concerns:

Areas of Concern

1. Systematic discrimination against women and girls through bans on education

and work, exclusion from public life, compulsory dress codes, and deprivation of

basic rights, constituting clear gender apartheid.

2. Severe restrictions on civil liberties under a narrow interpretation of Amr-e bil

Ma’ruf and Nahi an al-Munkar (Vice and Vertue), limiting social, cultural, and

economic participation.

3. Total deprivation of political participation and exclusion of women from decision-

making structures, violating the fundamental right of the Afghan people to self-

determination.

4. Suppression of freedom of expression and media through arrests of journalists,

censorship, shutdown of media outlets, and intimidation.

5. Pursuit, arrest, and killing of dissidents, human rights defenders, and former

government employees, reflecting the continuation of violence and denial of

justice.

6. Despite progress in international documentation and investigative processes,

accountability efforts remain insufficient in scale and speed relative to the gravity

of crimes.

Recommendations and Calls to Action

The conference calls on the international community, the European Union, UN bodies,

UNAMA and human rights organizations to:

1. Formally recognize gender apartheid in Afghanistan as a legal category and

pursue accountability accordingly.

2. Maintain Afghanistan as an active item on international agendas to prevent

political neglect.

3. Halt normalization or engagement with the Taliban in absence of guarantees for

human rights, women’s rights, and inclusive participation.

4. Support and strengthen international accountability efforts, including ICC and ICJ

processes, and pursue effective actions against perpetrators.

5. Expand protective pathways for human rights defenders, journalists, and at-risk

citizens through humanitarian visas, emergency relocation programs, and safe

resettlement.

6. Apply consistent and conditional pressure for the restoration of education for girls

and women.

7. Link the newly established UN accountability mechanism with civil society

networks, including FAROE, to strengthen research, documentation and

advocacy collaboration.

The conference asserts that global indifference to Afghanistan’s current reality equates

to unintentional complicity in the ongoing suffering and repression of its people. Action,

not merely expression of concern, is urgently required.

In conclusion, the participants reaffirm full solidarity with the people of Afghanistan,

especially women, girls, human rights defenders, and victims of discrimination and

violence; and highlight solidarity as the only pathway toward a just future.

End of Resolution