Women’s rights are under attack 30 years after leaders adopted a blueprint for equality, UN says
Thirty years after world leaders adopted a historic blueprint to achieve gender equality, a new United Nations report says ...
Christian Science Monitor10h
Rebels with a robot: ‘Rule Breakers’ celebrates Afghan girls who dared to dream
A celebration of the bravery and ingenuity of the Afghan girls robotics team contrasts with the reality of Afghanistan’s ...
Inter Press Service13h
Stitching Hope: Two Afghan Women Rebuild Their Lives with Needle and Thread
The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity ...
Opinion
‘War feminism’ helped doom USAID
The failure to deliver women’s liberation to Afghanistan delegitimized USAID in the eyes of Americans who have decided to turn away from the idea of development aid altogether.
The history of the Taliban is crucial in understanding their success now – and also what might happen next
One of the keys to the Taliban success was they offered an alternative. They said, “Look, the mujahedeen fought heroically to liberate your country but have now turned it into a war zone. We offer ...
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Malala makes first visit to hometown Barkana since being attacked
Police say Nobel laureate flew in via helicopter accompanied by husband and father, visited ancestral graveyard and relatives ...
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Taliban ban and condemns women's voices
The government of Afghanistan has ratified a law on the propagation of virtue and prevention of vice that requires women to ...