Afghanistan
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Human Rights
Afghanistan’s crisis deepens as human rights recede and aid funding falls
Afghanistan’s worsening humanitarian crisis is being driven by the accelerating erosion of fundamental rights – especially for women and girls…
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Middle East
‘We won’t stop’: Afghan women keep businesses alive despite sweeping rights abuses
In Afghanistan, where sweeping restrictions have pushed most women out of public life, thousands are refusing to give up on…
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Asia Pacific
Afghanistan: Opium cultivation drops sharply, but regional trafficking rises
Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has fallen by 20 per cent compared to last year, continuing a dramatic decline since…
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Human Rights
‘Normalising’ Taliban rule would betray Afghan women, warns UN expert
Governments moving to restore ties with the Taliban risk legitimising oppression and deepening Afghanistan’s crisis, an independent UN human rights…
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Asia Pacific
UN welcomes Afghanistan-Pakistan ceasefire
The United Nations called on Thursday for Afghanistan and Pakistan to permanently end recent deadly hostilities and protect civilians. The…
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Asia Pacific
Afghan quake aftermath: Children facing heightened risk from disease
Over 212,000 Afghan children are now at risk of acute watery diarrhoea and other deadly waterborne diseases, according to the…
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Women
What happens when Afghan women and girls go offline?
Nearly 70,000 women in Afghanistan tune in to Radio Femme – an all-female-run online and traditionally broadcast radio station which…
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Asia Pacific
Taliban internet blackout leaves Afghans in limbo while needs surge
Lifesaving relief efforts to help remote Afghan communities devastated by last month’s deadly earthquake have already been hit by the…
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Women
Afghanistan faces ‘perfect storm’ of crises, UN warns
Afghanistan is confronting “a perfect storm” of overlapping crises, the UN’s outgoing envoy warned the Security Council on Wednesday, as…
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Economic Development
Afghanistan quake: Aid teams still scrambling to reach survivors
In remote eastern Afghanistan, aid workers are continuing to race to assist survivors of Sunday’s devastating earthquake as the death…
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