To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent progress she has made on providing support to persecuted minority communities in Afghanistan.
Answered on
28 June 2022
The UK announced £286 million of aid for Afghanistan this financial year. Our humanitarian aid is distributed based on needs and targeted to reach the most vulnerable. Through our Conflict Stability and Security Fund programming, we are also supporting projects that seek to enhance Afghan capacity to reduce local-level tensions, and monitor and reduce human rights abuses against at-risk groups.
We continue to raise human rights, including rights of religious and ethnic minorities, in our meetings with the Taliban, including in visits of senior officials to Kabul in October 2021 and February 2022 and other meetings with Taliban leaders. We call on them to respect international law and uphold the human rights of all Afghans, including ethnic and religious minorities.