By Ayaz Gul VOA News January 29, 2024 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s fundamentalist Taliban hosted their first international meeting Monday since returning to power in Kabul, saying it is aimed at promoting economic connectivity and cooperation with regional countries on “common challenges.” Special representatives and ambassadors from neighboring and regional countries, including China, Russia and Iran, attended the
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 22, 2024 ISLAMABAD — The United Nations said Monday that the Taliban government in impoverished Afghanistan had recently forced hundreds of females out of their jobs for allegedly not adhering to Islamic law requirements imposed on women nationwide. The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA, documented the job dismissals in
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi January 15, 2024 UNICEF, the UN’s aid and relief organization for children, has called for greater support for the nearly 100,000 children affected by the October earthquakes in the western Afghan province of Herat. In a January 15 statement marking 100 days since the first earthquake on October 7, UNICEF said
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 11, 2024 The UN Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) has expressed deep concern over what it says are recent arbitrary detentions and arrests of Afghan women and girls because of alleged violations of the Islamic dress code. “Since January 1, in Kabul and Daykundi provinces, UNAMA has documented a series of hijab
Khaama: The United Nations Security Council approved a new resolution on Afghanistan on Friday. The resolution was adopted with 13 votes in favour and two abstentions from Russia and China. The resolution calls on the Secretary-General of the United Nations to appoint a special envoy for Afghanistan. According to the resolution, the UN Secretary-General is
8am: The organization identified child labor, sexual exploitation, high dropout rates, and migration as severe violations of children’s rights. Specifically, the report underscored that the Taliban’s prohibition on girls’ education exposes many girls to egregious forms of violence, including honor killings, underage marriages, and heightened instances of family violence. Designated violators of children’s rights in
Khaama: The head of the Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch reacted to reports about the education of girls in religious schools, stating that these schools are not an ‘acceptable substitute’ for public schools. Heather Barr said it seems Roza Otunbayeva is ‘ready for a major and deeply harmful compromise’ in the absence of
Akmal Dawi VOA News December 20, 2023 A top United Nations official has called for more frequent and direct engagements with de facto Taliban authorities both inside and outside Afghanistan to address the country’s challenging relations with the international community. Addressing members of the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday, Roza Otunbayeva, the secretary-general’s special representative
Khaama: According to the report, while the political opposition in exile has become more active, the armed forces opposing the Taliban have not posed “any challenge” to the Taliban’s control of the territory in the past three months. The report also mentions that the Afghanistan Freedom Front was the most active military group opposing the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 14, 2023 The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) says de facto Taliban governing officials have admitted to sending women to prison as a means of protecting them from gender-based violence. In a report published on December 14, the UN mission said the Taliban has eliminated the country’s 23 state protection