{"id":35392,"date":"2021-08-17T14:18:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T05:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/17\/chilling-reports-un-chief-urges-security-council-to-act-on-afghanistan-video"},"modified":"2021-08-17T14:18:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T05:18:45","slug":"chilling-reports-un-chief-urges-security-council-to-act-on-afghanistan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35392","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Chilling reports&#8217;: UN chief urges security council to act on Afghanistan \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres called on the security council to &#8216;use all tools at its disposal to suppress the global terrorist threat in&nbsp;Afghanistan&#8217; and guarantee that basic human rights will be respected. Ashraf Ghani left&nbsp;Afghanistan&nbsp;on Sunday as the Taliban took over the country 20 years after they were ousted by a US-led invasion. &#8216;We are receiving chilling reports of severe restrictions on human rights throughout the country,&#8217; said Guterres. &#8216;I am particularly concerned by accounts of mounting human rights violations against the women and girls of&nbsp;Afghanistan&#8217;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/17\/afghanistan-live-news-us-says-kabul-airport-reopens-as-biden-defends-withdrawal\">Afghanistan live news: Biden defends withdrawal as Taliban patrol Kabul<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/who-are-the-taliban-and-how-will-they-govern-afghanistan-strict-islamic-beliefs\">Who are the Taliban and how will they govern Afghanistan this time?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/17\/chilling-reports-un-chief-urges-security-council-to-act-on-afghanistan-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres called on the security council to &#8216;use all tools at its disposal to suppress the global terrorist threat in&nbsp;Afghanistan&#8217; and guarantee that basic human rights will be respected. Ashraf Ghani left&amp;n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,61,44,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-united-nations","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35393,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35392\/revisions\/35393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}