3 minAfghans face catastrophe without urgent aid, UN warnsA British soldier with a baby at Kabul airport. Photograph: Sky New Afghanistan is facing an “absolute catastrophe” involving widespread...
2 min‘Progress is on the line’: former Afghan ambassador warns of women’s fate under Taliban ruleTwo decades of gains in rights and liberties for the women of Afghanistan hang by a thread as many go into hiding The embassy of...
4 minProgress was always fitful. Many Afghan women felt unsafe before the Taliban’s arrival...Iam thinking about Farkhunda. You may have read about her six years ago and felt outrage at the Afghan men who killed her. All that...
2 minJournalist who captured hopes of Afghan women and girls says Taliban’s return is ‘devastating’ blowAn acclaimed photojournalist who captured the hopes of women and girls after the fall of the Taliban in 2001 fears they have been...
2 minAfghan women footballers evacuated by Australian government after pleaThe Australian government has evacuated more than 50 women footballers and athletes and their dependents from Afghanistan following an...
4 min‘Don’t avert your eyes’: Afghan teachers urge world to defend girls’ educationEducators say they fear reversal of hard-won progress as aid workers call for Taliban’s desire for international legitimacy to be used as...
3 minWoman trapped indoors fearful of the Taliban says the world has 'left Afghanistan behind''All the world has left us behind', a female aid worker trapped in Afghanistan feels she has been 'left behind' by the West 'to die' A...
6 minMusic will be banned in Afghanistan and women will need a male chaperone if they travel alone Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told the New York Times that the terrorist group will be more liberal than they were 20 years ago He...
8 minAfghanistan: Right to ride revolution stops as women face targeted violence by TalibanWomen cycling in Afghanistan (Image credit: Getty Images) The last 10 days have been a matter of life and death for the groundbreaking...
2 minAfghanistan: Ex-football star says the women and girls left behind are 'so afraid' of Taliban rulMadina Azizi is a football coach and former star of Afghanistan's female football team, something that simply wouldn't have been possible...
4 minElif Shafak’s Diary: Publishing heroes, Afghanistan’s forsaken women, and Turkey’s autocratic turnElif Shafak’s Diary: Publishing heroes, Afghanistan’s forsaken women, and the lessons of Turkey’s autocratic turn Feminists from Turkey...
3 minAfghanistan: Taliban tell working women to stay at homeWorking women in Afghanistan must stay at home until proper systems are in place to ensure their safety, a Taliban spokesman has told...
2 min“We feel like we are losing everything” the future for Afghan women & girls looks unimaginably bleakAfter 20 years of equality, the Taliban is placing cruel restrictions on women’s freedom again. Lynne O’Donnell, who was on one of the...
3 minAfghan women fear ‘painful and ugly’ future & struggling to feed children after Taliban stay-at-homeAfghan women say they fear a “painful and ugly” future after the Taliban ordered working women to stay at home, with some worried they...
2 minAfghanistan a disappointing resolution of the Human Rights Council(Paris) The Resolution adopted today by the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC) during its Special Session on Afghanistan...
3 minImplementing Participation in Governance - TunisiaHow do you assess the value of the Urban Development and Local Governance Program? The phase of democratic and political reforms underway...
4 minCitizen engagement: taking a lead from the private sectorWhat can government learn from companies who put their customers first? The public sector could continue to learn a thing or two from the...
5 minCitizen EngagementHighlights Citizens play a critical role in advocating and helping to make public institutions more transparent, accountable and...
2 minWhy rule of law is the bedrock of sustainable developmentThe concept of access to justice is finally taking its rightful role as a key pillar of the international development agenda (SDG16). It...
4 minWhy Development Needs the Rule of LawIn Mexico since 2006, tens of thousands have been killed, and many more disappeared, as a war between narcotics gangs and government...