Tag: Afghanistan
The Taliban order all NGOs in Afghanistan to stop employing women or face closure
The Taliban says it will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women. It comes two years after they told...
Afghan journalists fear country going dark as Taliban bans images of ‘living things’
The Taliban’s ban on images and videos of “living things” will make it harder to cover Afghanistan, journalists in the country said.The Afghan...
She wanted ‘the world’ for her daughter. Instead, she got a landmark prison sentence
Ruqia Haidari was the baby of the family.The youngest of five children, she was born in Afghanistan in 1999, just a month before...
Afghanistan sprinter uses Olympic trip to shine light on how women are treated in her country
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — To get a sense of the real race Afghanistan's lone woman at the Olympic track meet is running, one...