A new study by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) has found that racial discrimination is a key factor behind the increasing level of violence in the country. 

The study which is assessing the implementation of ‘International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination’ in Afghanistan reveals that 25.4 percent of Afghans have said they in a way or another, they were racially discriminated in government institutions because of their ethnicity, race or religious affiliations.  

From the total of 3,498 respondents, 25.4 percent of them said they had experienced racial discrimination in recruitments, promotion and in the delivery of privileges in government institutions.

In this episode of Mehwar, host Sadaf Amiri discusses the topic with Bilal Siddiqi, spokesman for Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission.