emergency session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Ambassador Nasir Ahmad Andisha called for

GENEVA( Reuters)-More than 100 former Afghan national security forces and others have been killed since the Taliban takeover in August, most at the hands of the hardline Islamist group which is recruiting boy soldiers and quashing women's rights, the U.N. said on Tuesday. Nada al-Nashif, U.N. Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that in addition, at least 50 suspected members of a local affiliate of Islamic State known as ISIS-Khorasan-an ideological foe of the Taliban-died by hanging

PUL-E-ALAM, Afghanistan— A flickering flame of paper, rags and random twigs is the only heat Gulnaz has to keep her 18-month-old son warm.... She sits for hours on the highway median, just beyond a bump in the road that slows traffic.... Both are hidden under voluminous blue burqas....

That text asked U.N. rights boss Michelle Bachelet to report back, giving her few resources or power. Bachelet told the forum on Sept.... 13 that Taliban had broken promises by ordering women to stay at home and by carrying out house-to-house searches for former foes.An EU draft resolution circulated at this session, seen by Reuters, condemns executions and violence against protesters and media.... Taliban authorities in the western Afghan city of Herat killed four alleged kidnappers and hung

GENEVA — Spurred by mounting evidence of Taliban abuses since the group seized power two months ago, the United Nations top human rights body voted Thursday to appoint an independent expert backed by specialist advisers to investigate and report on abuses in Afghanistan. The Human Rights Council in Geneva adopted a European Union-led resolution endorsed by 50 mainly European and Latin American countries that will install, by March of next year, a special rapporteur and a team of technical expert