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UN-led Doha meeting with Taliban sparks outcry over women's rights
Reuters via AOL· 2 hours agoAfghanistan's Taliban government is due to send officials to Qatar next weekend to meet top U.N....
Reclusive Taliban leader warns Afghans against earning money or gaining 'worldly honor'
Houston Chronicle· 6 days agoThe Taliban’s reclusive supreme leader on Monday warned Afghans against earning money or gaining...
UN envoy defends failure to include Afghan women in upcoming meeting with the Taliban in Qatar
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe United Nations' top official in Afghanistan defended the failure to include Afghan women in the...
Republicans fume over report part of $2.8B Afghan humanitarian funding went to Taliban
Fox News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoReps. Brian Mast and Michael McCaul separately admonished the Biden administration after an...
She stood up to the Taliban as a leading TV presenter. Now they’ve come for her family
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAfter an online clip of her challenging the Taliban went viral, Shabnam and two siblings fled to the...
UN rapporteur calls for Taliban’s ‘gender apartheid’ to be codified as crime against humanity
The Independent via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe Taliban should be held accountable for violating women’s rights in Afghanistan and its “gender...
'Cricket is the only source of happiness back home': Afghans celebrate big win
BBC via Yahoo Sports· 4 hours agoThe Afghan Cricket Board (ACB) was set up in 1995, the year before the Taliban began its first stint...
The UN Is Betraying Afghan Women
Bloomberg· 2 hours agoBy putting security concerns above human rights, the global body and its international backers will get neither. Ruth Pollard is a Bloomberg Opinion...
Peace without women is no peace at all
The Hill· 2 hours agoWomen are missing from the biggest high-level political negotiations happening right now to try to end crises around the world. No women are involved in...
Taliban’s opium ban imperiled by climate change as alternative crops struggle
Washington Post· 3 days agoTwo years after the Taliban banned opium, Afghan farmers turning to alternative crops are...