Position of Afghanistan on the adoption of the international human rights instruments, part III: 1990 – 2001.

Abstract

The article is the third part of studies showing Afghanistan's path towards adopting international instruments for the protection of human rights. Based on national law, international documents and historical sources, it analyses the approach of the Islamic State of Afghanistan and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to human rights, one of the main components of the concept of human security developing in the 1990s. The structure of the article corresponds with the research objectives: to highlight the role of human rights in the idea of human security 90s, to present the changes in the balance of power within the state which had an impact on the security and legal order of Afghanistan, to present the attitude of the Taliban to international standards of human rights protection leading to the security of the individual.