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For Afghans who fought against the Taliban, life is fraught under their rule

Those who put their lives on the line in the Afghan National Army and can't find a way out of Afghanistan are working menial jobs, sometimes moving locations every few days in fear for their safety.

WEKU

Afghan women, undeterred by Taliban, secretly network for change

Female activists are secretly building support networks for marginalised women in Taliban-governed Afghanistan.

Al Jazeera

‘Leaders have gone silent’: Malala calls for UK to help oppressed Afghan women

The 25-year-old Pakistani activist accused world leaders of going “silent” as she addressed the Action for Afghanistan rally on Sunday.

The Independent UK

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Brit is touring the 'most dangerous' countries in the world including Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq

Ben Frier purposely goes to 'places people don't want to go'

Wales Online

London protesters to call for legal asylum route for Afghan women

Protesters will march from Park Lane to Westminster on Sunday

Evening Standard

As Afghans flee, Turkey is accused of deporting them without a fair hearing

As elections approach and politicians play to fears over the number of refugees in Turkey, a new report by Human Rights Watch accuses Turkish authorities of indiscriminately deporting Afghans regardless of the dangers awaiting them in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

Radio France Internationale

London marchers to call for safe asylum route for Afghan women

Thousands expected to demonstrate on Sunday to urge UK government to help those fleeing Taliban

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Taliban's treatment of women may be crime against humanity: UN experts

The Taliban's treatment of Afghan women and girls, including their exclusion from parks and gyms as well as schools and universities, may amount to a crime against humanity, a group of U.N. experts said on Friday.

Reuters

UN experts denounce Taliban treatment of women as crime

A U.N. team of experts says the Taliban treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan may amount to a crime against humanity and should be investigated and prosecuted under international law

The Independent UK

Afghanistan: after a year of Taliban government, women are more oppressed than ever

The recent announcement that women and girls in Afghanistan have been banned by the Taliban government from visiting parks and gyms – even if accompanied by a male “chaperone” – has understandably been greeted with outrage.

The Conversation

Afghans are bracing for a winter many fear will be even worse than the last

At World Food Programme distribution sites, "Everybody tells us, 'Last winter was difficult, but we have no idea how we will get through the coming winter,'" says a WFP spokesperson in Kabul.

WEKU

About 4,000 Afghan children still living in hotels in UK after Taliban takeover

The Home Office published updated figures on Thursday.

The Independent UK

Desperate parents sedating crying children and selling own organs in Afghanistan

Reporting just outside Herat, Afghanistan, the BBC found families giving their children Xanax to stop them crying and to help them sleep at night while others confessed to selling their kidneys

Daily Mirror

Mine company's blasting of rock shelters likened to Taliban

An Australian minister has likened a mining company blasting ancient rock shelters to the Taliban’s destruction of giant Buddha carvings and vowed to improve protections of Indigenous cultural heritage

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The Guardian - UK

A year after 27 drowned crossing the channel, migrants still suffer in Calais

Asylum-seekers sleep rough, forge friendships and withstand harassment from police as they seek passage to the UK

The Guardian - UK

UK aid to Afghanistan entrenched corruption and injustice, report finds

Government watchdog says £3.5bn aid in 20 years to 2020 failed to achieve aim of stabilising Afghan government

Evening Standard

Taliban lash 14 people in front of hundreds of spectators at Afghanistan football stadium

They were being punished for “sins including adultery, robbery and other forms of corruption”, said the Afghan Supreme Court

Los Angeles Times

A year in, the Taliban escalates its war against girls' education in Afghanistan

BAMIAN, Afghanistan — When Zahra Wafa thinks about what it took to put her daughters through school, her face hardens.

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Reuters

Taliban court lashes 14 in latest shift to corporal punishments

Fourteen people were lashed in a football stadium in eastern Afghanistan, the Taliban-led Supreme Court said on Wednesday, in the latest sign of the ruling group applying its strict interpretation of sharia (Islamic law) to criminal justice.

The Guardian - UK

Echo 3 review – a hostage drama that’s like Band of Brothers meets EastEnders

From the writer of The Hurt Locker, this show about a rescue mission to save a loved one from Colombian guerrillas stars two buff bros who channel Phil and Grant Mitchell

Daily Mirror

Brit 'danger tourist' illegally crosses borders to see girlfriend then is dumped on phone

Miles Routledge has made it his mission to visit the most dangerous places in the world, but faced heartbreak on his latest 10-day trip which saw him crossing "multiple illegal borders"

Reuters

Dutch court rules 2007 Dutch bombing in Afghanistan was illegal

A Dutch court ruled on Wednesday the shelling by Dutch soldiers of a residential complex in the Afghan province of Uruzgan in June 2007 was illegal, adding the Netherlands should compensate the victims.

Daily Mirror

Nine women lashed for 'adultery' by Taliban as Afghanistan returns to brutal sharia law

The Taliban's supreme court spokesman revealed that nine women were among the 19 people lashed for adultery in the first major signs the ruling Afghan regime is again applying its strict interpretation of sharia to criminal justice

Al Jazeera

Critics lament exclusion of Afghanistan from COP27

Call for funding grows for diplomatically isolated Afghanistan, which is facing disasters because of climate change.

Salon

Afghan teen survived Taliban but not US

“To survive war then come to America to be buried?”

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