#HRC61: Submission to the report on the right to health for women and girls in Afghanistan

We reiterate our main message: restore funding to support and protect LGBTI people in Afghanistan, and protect resettlement pathways.”

During the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, our Afghanistan Programme Lead, Zohra Mousavi, delivered a statement highlighting the alarming situation of lesbian, bisexual, and trans women under Taliban rule.

Criminalised, erased from public life, and excluded from life-saving support systems, LBT women are persecuted due to their gender identity and sexual orientation in Afghanistan. At the same time, funding cuts to organisations providing protection to LBT women are removing the already minimised but critical lifelines.

Read the Joint Submission to the report on the right to health for women and girls in Afghanistan
of the UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan to the 61st session of the Human Rights Council: