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Afghans face catastrophe without urgent aid, UN warns
A British soldier with a baby at Kabul airport. Photograph: Sky New Afghanistan is facing an “absolute catastrophe” involving widespread...
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‘Progress is on the line’: former Afghan ambassador warns of women’s fate under Taliban rule
Two decades of gains in rights and liberties for the women of Afghanistan hang by a thread as many go into hiding The embassy of...
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Progress 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...
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Journalist who captured hopes of Afghan women and girls says Taliban’s return is ‘devastating’ blow
An acclaimed photojournalist who captured the hopes of women and girls after the fall of the Taliban in 2001 fears they have been...
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Afghan women footballers evacuated by Australian government after plea
The Australian government has evacuated more than 50 women footballers and athletes and their dependents from Afghanistan following an...
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‘Don’t avert your eyes’: Afghan teachers urge world to defend girls’ education
Educators say they fear reversal of hard-won progress as aid workers call for Taliban’s desire for international legitimacy to be used as...
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Woman 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...
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Music 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...
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Afghanistan: Right to ride revolution stops as women face targeted violence by Taliban
Women cycling in Afghanistan (Image credit: Getty Images) The last 10 days have been a matter of life and death for the groundbreaking...
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Afghanistan: Ex-football star says the women and girls left behind are 'so afraid' of Taliban rul
Madina Azizi is a football coach and former star of Afghanistan's female football team, something that simply wouldn't have been possible...
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Elif Shafak’s Diary: Publishing heroes, Afghanistan’s forsaken women, and Turkey’s autocratic turn
Elif Shafak’s Diary: Publishing heroes, Afghanistan’s forsaken women, and the lessons of Turkey’s autocratic turn Feminists from Turkey...
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Afghanistan: Taliban tell working women to stay at home
Working women in Afghanistan must stay at home until proper systems are in place to ensure their safety, a Taliban spokesman has told...
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“We feel like we are losing everything” the future for Afghan women & girls looks unimaginably bleak
After 20 years of equality, the Taliban is placing cruel restrictions on women’s freedom again. Lynne O’Donnell, who was on one of the...
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Afghan women fear ‘painful and ugly’ future & struggling to feed children after Taliban stay-at-home
Afghan women say they fear a “painful and ugly” future after the Taliban ordered working women to stay at home, with some worried they...
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Afghanistan 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...
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WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Under the Millennium Development Goals, the world has made progress toward gender equality and women’s empowerment through equal access...
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Empowering Women in Developing Economies
Voices from the Field features contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to developm
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Facts and Figures: Economic Empowerment
Benefits of economic empowerment Women’s economic empowerment is central to realizing women’s rights and gender equality. Women’s...
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