the Re-Establishment of Permanent Government Institutions, done in Bonn, Germany, December 5, 2001 (commonly known as the Bonn Agreement ), and functions as a national human rights institution working on the protection and promotion of human rights in Afghanistan. (10) As stated in the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan’s (UNAMA) 2016 Annual Report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict in Afghanistan, the number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan in 2016 was the highest since UNAMA began counting such casualties in 2009 and women and children continue to be disproportionately affected by the conflict. . UNAMA also noted, in the 2017 Midyear Report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict in Afghanistan, that both child and women casualties rose during the first half of 2017. . (11) The report referred to in paragraph (3) notes that— (A) structural barriers, traditional cultural norms, and insecurity contributed to the precarious situation of women in Afghanistan and in the Afghanistan National Defense and Security Forces