Top UN human rights official in Afghanistan calls for repeal of amnesty law

25 March 2010 – The United Nations human rights office in Afghanistan today called for the repeal of a controversial amnesty law in the Asian country, saying that it green-lights impunity for serious crimes and continued rights violations.

“This law relieves Afghan authorities of their obligation to investigate and prosecute, on their own initiative, those allegedly responsible for gross violations of human rights,” Norah Niland, the Representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, told journalists today in Kabul. - Top UN human rights official in Afghanistan calls for repeal of ...

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United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
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