United Nations: The UN Security Council is set to vote on Thursday to condemn a ban on Afghan women working for the United Nations in Afghanistan and call upon the Taliban administration to "swiftly reverse" its crackdown on the rights of women and girls. The resolution
United Nations: The U.N. food agency has said that it urgently needs $800 million for the next six months to help Afghanistan, which is at the highest risk of famine in a quarter of a century. Aid agencies have been providing food, education and health care
London: Only 23 percent of Britons believe that the government is doing enough to aid Afghan veterans who served alongside British forces, a new poll commissioned by The Independent has revealed. It comes amid new figures that show five in six applicants to the UK’s military
United Nations: The United Nations’ top humanitarian official in Afghanistan warned that Taliban’s decision to ban women from working for the UN will have devastating consequences for aid delivery. Dr. Ramiz Alakbarov, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan, said that amid severe underfunding, the move would “further
WASHINGTON: The White House released a long-awaited review of the traumatic US exit from Afghanistan, admitting there had been a massive intelligence failure in not predicting rapid Taliban victory, but defending overall US conduct. "Clearly we didn’t get things right" on intelligence, National Security Council spokesman
Kabul: A radio station in the northeast of Afghanistan run by women was shut down for what Taliban authorities say "played music during the holy month of Ramadan," reported Al Jazeera on Monday. The radio station — Sadai Banowan — was started 10 years ago and
United Nations: The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan must immediately release activists detained for advocating for girls’ and women’s rights, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said, expressing alarm over the ongoing arrests. Since the beginning of the year, several civil society activists and journalists have been
Kabul: The founder of a project that campaigned for girls' education in Afghanistan has been detained by Taliban authorities in Kabul, his brother and the United Nations said Tuesday. The Taliban government last year barred girls from attending secondary school and later university, making Afghanistan the
Dubai: A former senior official at Britain’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is taking the UK government to court test the legal protections for whistleblowers, amid concerns they are not sufficient to protect civil servants. Josie Stewart, who worked at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Kabul: Shamila doesn't have a photo of the baby son who died in her arms in freezing temperatures at their home in Kabul this month, but she remembers his face perfectly. "He had a white and bright face, big eyes, a small nose and black