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UN report says its female staff in Afghanistan have received death threats

Afghan women and children wait to be inoculated during a vaccination programme in Aab Bareek village in the Argo district of Badakhshan province, Afghanistan [File: Wakil Kohsar/AFP]

Explicit death threats have been made against dozens of Afghan women working for the United Nations in Afghanistan, according to a new UN report, where their rights have been severely curtailed since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.

The UN mission to the country said female national staff were subjected to direct death threats in May, in the latest update on the human rights situation in Afghanistan published on Sunday.

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