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New York: The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday welcomed the news that secondary schools are due to reopen in Afghanistan on Saturday, after months of closure due to COVID-19, but stressed that girls must not be kept from the classroom. more
Afghanistan: Security Council resolution calls for ‘equal and meaningful participation of women’

New York: The Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Friday, specifying the importance of “equ ...

Refugees face dire consequences from COVID-19 underfunding, UNHCR warns

New York: Underfunding has left a “yawning gap” in the UN Refugee Agency’s ability to protect forcibly displaced people worldwide from the fallout of the COVID-19 pandem ...

Afghanistan: Taliban members bar women employees from entering Ministry of Women Affairs in Kabul

Kabul: Taliban members did not allow women employees from entering  the Ministry of Women Affairs in Kabul on Thursday, showing yet another episode of atrocities faced by females in ...

Afghanistan conflict: Thousands demonstrate against Taliban in Kandahar

Kandahar: Thousands of people, including women, demonstrated in Afghanistan's Kandahar city on Tuesday against Taliban's latest decision by which the families of late Afghan secur ...

Taliban to change Afghanistan education curriculum as per Sharia Law

Kabul: Taliban rulers of Afghanistan have decided to drop certain subjects from the higher education curriculum as they do not go with the Islamic Sharia Law.

Afghanistan: Taliban insurgents assault woman, abduct five members of her family in Kabul

Kabul: Taliban insurgents on Saturday assaulted a woman and  abducted five of her family members in Kabul city, media reports said.

$1 billion pledge a ‘quantum leap’ in commitment to Afghanistan: UN chief

New York: UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday hailed significant international financial support pledged to the people of Afghanistan following a meeting in Geneva ...

Afghanistan women abroad wear colourful dress to deride Taliban diktat

Kabul: Breaking the rule set by Taliban that eves should wear all-black attire in the nation, a group of Afghanistan women, who stay abroad, have posted their own images online wearing co ...

Support Afghans in their most perilous hour, urges UN’s Guterres

New York: The international community should urgently offer a “lifeline” to millions of vulnerable Afghans “who face perhaps their most perilous hour”, the UN Secr ...