Kabul, Aug. 6 -- The international community has failed to take meaningful action to stop ongoing human rights abuses in Afghanistan since 2021, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement released on Tuesday, Khaama Press reported.

Marking the fourth anniversary of the Taliban's takeover, HRW said that despite extensive documentation of the group's abuses -- including bans on girls' education, extreme restrictions on women, suppression of dissent, and arbitrary arrests of journalists -- "no meaningful accountability mechanism has been established," according to Khaama Press.

The organisation urged the UN Human Rights Council to "urgently create an independent international body to monitor, document, and investigate human rights violat...