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Campaigners fear deeper diplomatic contacts are undermining demands for improvements in human rights

The Taliban in Afghanistan have launched a diplomatic effort to end their isolation as major regional and international powers show a readiness to engage more closely with the repressive regime despite its systematic human rights abuses.

Five years after the Taliban took power, an increasing number of countries are renewing ties or scaling up diplomatic contacts with the hardline Islamists, who seized power in Kabul in 2021 after 20 years of brutal insurgent warfare.

Campaigners fear that the individual contacts by different countries risk undermining “coherent, consistent” demands for an improvement in human rights in return for any diplomatic concessions.

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[-] Archimedes@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

As far as I can tell human rights don't really exist so🤷

[-] Seimhe@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Solidarity exists. Human rights failings are solidarity failings.

this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2026
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