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UN chief: former Kyrgyzstan president to head Afghan mission
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFormer Kyrgyzstan president Roza Otunbayeva has been appointed as the new U.N. special envoy for crisis-stricken Afghanistan, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced late Friday. Otunbayeva ...
UN envoy defends failure to include Afghan women in upcoming meeting with the Taliban in Qatar
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe United Nations' top official in Afghanistan defended the failure to include Afghan women in the...
UN warns Taliban that restrictions on Afghan women and girls make recognition `nearly impossible'
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe U.N. envoy for Afghanistan warned the country's Taliban rulers Wednesday that international...
U.N. chief appoints former Kyrgyzstan president as Afghanistan envoy
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday appointed a former president of Kyrgyzstan as his new special envoy for Afghanistan. Roza Otunbayeva, who also served ...
'All Or No One': In Afghanistan, A Woman Is Painting Walls To Protest University Ban
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 1 year agoZahra, an activist for women's rights who spray-paints messages of resistance on the streets of...