Human rights are not abstract principles; they are lived realities that shape safety at work, access to education, freedom of belief, and the dignity of communities across the globe. In that spirit, the International Community is encouraged to study, share, and actively reference a newly published legal report examining grave violations committed against the Hazara people in Afghanistan.
The report, The Hazara Genocide: An Examination of Breaches of the Genocide Convention in Afghanistan since August 2021, presents a rigorous, evidence-based legal assessment of systematic violence, exclusion, and destruction inflicted upon the Hazara community. Drawing on international law, historical patterns of persecution, and recent atrocities, the report establishes a reasonable legal basis for concluding that acts meeting the threshold of genocide have occurred.
For Human Rights professionals, this report carries particular relevance. The deliberate targeting of people in schools, workplaces, hospitals, places of worship, cultural centres, and public spaces underscores how mass atrocities dismantle the very foundations of human capital, workforce participation, and social cohesion. Engineers, doctors, teachers, students, athletes, parents, and children are not merely statistics in this analysis; they are individuals whose lives, skills, and futures were erased or permanently harmed.
Human Rights leaders operate at the intersection of people, ethics, governance, and organisational responsibility. This report offers a vital resource for:
(i) informing equality, diversity, and inclusion discussions with global context;
(ii) supporting safeguarding, trauma-informed practice, and ethical leadership frameworks;
(iii) strengthening advocacy on corporate responsibility, supply-chain ethics, and human-rights due diligence;
(iv) contributing to policy dialogue in professional bodies, academia, and public institutions.
We urge Human Rights practitioners, academics, policymakers, and organisational leaders to download, study, cite, and circulate this report within professional networks, teaching materials, policy submissions, and public forums. Silence and inaction allow patterns of exclusion and violence to persist; informed engagement helps ensure that human rights violations are neither minimised nor forgotten.
The Human Rights profession has long championed dignity at work, fairness, and accountability. Engaging with this report is an extension of those values—recognising that protecting people, wherever they live, remains central to ethical leadership.
Hazara United Movement (HUM), United Kingdom 