Afghanistan
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Women
Afghanistan: No future without women’s participation
Afghan women earned the right to vote more than a century ago. Today, under Taliban rule, they are practically erased…
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Women
Afghanistan: UN warns of growing crisis under increasingly authoritarian Taliban rule
Concerns for women and the overall state of humanitarian rights in Afghanistan are growing following further legal clampdowns by the…
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Human Rights
Afghanistan: UN will ‘continue to engage’ with Taliban, following threat to withdraw cooperation
The United Nations will continue engaging with all stakeholders in Afghanistan, advocating for human rights and equality, the global body’s…
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Women
Afghanistan: Condemnation for new Taliban ‘virtue and vice’ order targeting women
A new morality law enacted by the Taliban in Afghanistan, cements policies that “completely erase” women’s presence in public, the…
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Women
Afghanistan: Meet the midwife who stayed
Mariza Ahmadi made a difficult choice three years ago. She had been working as a midwife at the Ahangaran family…
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Women
Afghanistan: Taliban rule has erased women from public life, sparked mental health crisis
Three years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan has led to the “striking” erasure of women from public life, which is…
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Culture and Education
Afghanistan: 20 years of steady education progress ‘almost wiped out’
The de facto authorities in Afghanistan “have almost wiped out two decades of steady progress for education” there, putting the…
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