UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson is expected in Kabul today at the start of a four-day visit to war-ravaged Afghanistan.
Mrs Robinson will meet interim Afghan leader Mr Hamid Karzai and other government officials in Kabul, according to a spokesman for the UN special representative in Afghanistan.
The former president will also launch a national workshop on human rights and a rights commission. The Bonn accords, which set up the interim government that took power in December, called for the creation of an independent commission to monitor and safeguard human rights in Afghanistan.
Mrs Robinson has been critical of the number of civilian casualties from the US-led military campaign that ousted the extremist Taliban regime from power.
"I was very concerned about the way the intervention was carried out in Afghanistan, causing a disproportionate number of a victims among the civilian population," she told the German magazine Die Zeitin an interview published today.
AFP