New York: The de facto Taliban authorities in Afghanistan must immediately release activists detained for advocating for girls’ and women’s rights, the UN human rights office, ...
New York: As the world focuses its attention on the war in Ukraine, the UN reminded the international community on Thursday to remember Afghanistan as it kicked off a pledging conference ...
-1647588819.jpg "World must deliver support to Afghans: UN refugee chief")
New York: UN Refugee Agency chief Filippo Grandi called on Thursday for sustained international support for Afghanistan’s people, where the country’s humanitarian crisis is wo ...
New York: Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls, independent UN human rights ex ...
New York: Human rights defenders in Afghanistan report that they are now enduring a "climate of fear", threats, and becoming increasingly desperate over conditions in the countr ...
New York: The combined shocks of drought, conflict, COVID-19 and an economic crisis in Afghanistan, have left more than half the population facing a record level of acute hunger, accordin ...
New York: The humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is worsening and funding for emergency aid is urgently needed to help 20 million people there, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesd ...
New York: UN humanitarian agencies and their partners on Wednesday urged countries to honour their pledges to Afghanistan, as they rush to scale-up delivery of lifesaving aid ahead of the ...
-1630844680.jpg "After closing beauty parlours, Afghan women makeup artists now fear execution by Taliban")
Kabul: Posters with female models, mostly those outside salons, were defaced as a gesture to appease the Taliban as the fighter group entered the Afghan capital, Kabul, on August 15.
