Afghanistan: Taliban Forcibly Disappear 6 Rights Workers

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have taken six staff members of a nongovernmental group into custody. The individuals worked for the Women and Children Legal Research Foundation. They have been missing for nearly a month. Their disappearance was reported by Human Rights Watch. The organization is based in New York and has been monitoring the situation. Further details about the disappearance are available from Human Rights Watch, which released a statement about the incident on August 12, 2026.