UNITED NATIONS A General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/12/9 20 JULY 2009 Original: ENGLISH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twelfth session Agenda item 6 UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review * Afghanistan _________________________ * Previously issued under document A/HRC/WG.6/5/L.8; minor revisions have been added under the authority of the secretariat of the Human Rights Council on the basis of editorial changes made by States through the ad referendum procedure The annex to the present report is circulated as received. GE.09-14614