8am: Local sources in Paktika Province report that Taliban traffic directorate employees in the city of Sharan, the capital of this province have struck due to not being paid for the last four months. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: As the World Children Day is being celebrated on November 20th around the globe, children in Afghanistan are bearing the worst of the humanitarian crisis. Fatima, 8, is an orphan, who is selling bread on a street in capital city of Kabul. Fatima is in the second grade but she sees no clear
8am: The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) says that restricting women from working costs the Afghan economy $1 billion. The aid group tweeted on Friday (November 18th) that Afghanistan is estimated to lose $1 billion due to restrictions on women’s right to work. Following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, women’s freedom to work has been
The director of a 1,000-bed rehabilitation center for drug addicts in Kabul says they don’t have enough basic food, medicine, and clothes for patients. Many rehabilitation centers have closed or are struggling to remain open since international charities cut or reduced funding after the Taliban returned to power in August 2021.
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi November 11, 2022 As residents of Afghanistan’s western Herat Province face high unemployment, skyrocketing inflation, and acute hunger, the Taliban authorities have cut off their access to a local delicacy — lamb testicles. The recently announced ban on the sale of testicles of sheep and other animals has infuriated local business owners
National Interest: The Taliban has still not achieved international recognition because it has not met the pledges made to the international community concerning human rights, women’s rights, and inclusive governance in Afghanistan. It has also created domestic dissatisfaction with the Taliban and significant trauma to national legitimacy. Therefore, non-recognition has inevitably resulted in Afghanistan being
Tolo News: The Department of Labor and Social Affairs in Baghlan said that the latest survey by a foreign institution, Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED), with the ministry’s cooperation, revealed that more than 14,000 children are engaged in hard labor, which is a thirty percent increase from last year. 3,000 of these children
Fair Observer: The Taliban have made their shaky government even shakier by perpetrating violence and cruelty indiscriminately. This has caused public trust in their political leadership to decline. Wrong policies, atrocities, fundamentalist Islamic laws, and curbing of human and women’s rights are all leading to the loss of public trust in the Taliban. Click here
8am: The scores of the global hunger index are given based on the indicators of malnutrition, child stunting, and mortality, and the score of these indicators is calculated on a 100-point scale. Based on this report, 29.8% of Afghan people suffer from malnutrition and 5.8% of children die younger than the age of five, and
8am: At least 8,582 people who were begging in Kabul city have been rounded up by the Taliban in more than a month. The committee for collecting beggars, headed by Mullah Baradar, the economic deputy of the Taliban’s Prime Minister, published these statistics on Monday (September 26th). These statistics, recorded since the beginning of collecting