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UN warns Taliban that restrictions on Afghan women and girls make recognition `nearly impossible'

The U.N. envoy for Afghanistan is warning the country’s Taliban rulers that international recognition as the country’s legitimate government will remain “nearly impossible” unless they lift severe restrictions on women and girls’ education and employment

The Independent UK

IOC warns Afghanistan about Paris Olympics status over denying sports to women and girls

The Afghanistan team’s status for the 2024 Paris Olympics has been put in question by the IOC over growing frustration with the Taliban blocking access to sport for women and girls

The Independent UK

In limbo in Indonesia, Afghan women find they ‘can be a boss’

Learning centres give refugee children, and the women who teach them, the chance to follow their dreams.

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UK parliament calls on Fifa to support exiled Afghanistan women’s team

Gianni Infantino has been urged to support Afghan women competing internationally with the parliamentarians letter backing a call made by Malala Yousafzai and Khalida Popal in January

The Guardian - UK

Taliban carry out 2nd known public execution since seizing power in Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have carried out what is believed to be the second confirmed public execution since the religious group took power in 2021

The Independent UK

Taliban treatment of women could be ‘gender apartheid’: UN expert

Taliban spokesperson rejects the report and accuses the UN and the West of ‘spreading propaganda’ against its rule.

Al Jazeera

Refugee Aziza named Woman of the Year after brave flee from Afghanistan to Newcastle

'It's important where you can continue your life and be able to do what you like.'

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UN calls for 'gender apartheid' to be criminalised as Taliban denounced for abuse of Afghan women

The UN's top expert on human rights in Afghanistan has urged countries to consider making "gender apartheid" an international crime, in a bid to hold the Taliban accountable for grave and systematic abuses against Afghan women.

Radio France Internationale

Watch live: UN unveils report into situation for women and girls in Taliban-led Afghanistan

Watch live as Richard Bennett, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, presents a joint report on the situation of women and girls in the country.

The Independent UK

Taliban slams US report on rising threats in Afghanistan

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid says the country is enjoying its greatest stability of the past 40 years.

Al Jazeera

Refugee's hard road to Canberra and freedom

Zerghona Jawadi's extraordinary story of trial and triumph.

The Canberra Times

After escaping the Taliban, hundreds of Afghans languish in Albania in a prolonged US visa process

Hundreds of Afghans are languishing in Albania, waiting for the U.S. visas they were promised, almost two years after fleeing the Taliban takeover of their country

The Independent UK

Hero Afghan pilot: UK commanders sent me into combat... how can you abandon me?

Exclusive: Afghan war hero who escaped Taliban to come to Britain hits back at officials who say his military service is not enough to stop his deportation

The Independent UK

Transition: the story of a trans journalist embedded with the Taliban

In a fascinating new documentary, an Australian trans man gains unprecedented access to the terrorist organisation while keeping his identity secret

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The Hindu

In a first, India and Pakistan special envoys participate in Western talks with Taliban in Norway

Taliban representatives met with Indian and Pakistani special envoys and officials amongst a number of international diplomats this week, in an effort by the Norwegian Government to break the impasse in talks on the sidelines of a peace conference in Oslo.

Daily Mirror

Hero soldier blown up by suicide bomb on first day of active service in miracle recovery

Dave Curtis will proudly represent Britain with other injured soldiers upcoming event, and credits it with helping him cope with devastating wounds he suffered in blast

The Independent UK

US offers asylum lifeline to Afghan war hero as UK refuses to recognise his military service

Exclusive: Humiliation for Britain as America – alerted by The Independent – considers safe haven for pilot facing deportation to Rwanda

Al Jazeera

‘Wedding or a funeral?’ Taliban bans music at Kabul wedding halls

The Taliban bans music at Kabul weddings halls because it is considered against the teachings of Islam.

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The Week

‘We should be scared’: the poisoning of schoolgirls in Afghanistan

Dozens of schoolgirls are suspected to have been deliberately poisoned in two attacks in Afghanistan, the latest in a decade of incidents in the region, intensifying fears for girls pursuing education.

Al Jazeera

Taliban slams UN report calling Afghan government ‘exclusionary’

Condemnation comes after UN Security Council report said there were rifts within the Taliban’s ranks.

France 24

Iran and Afghanistan dispute Helmand water rights as climate change deepens crisis

Iran and Afghanistan exchanged gunfire on May 27 amid rising tensions over water supplies in the region. The countries are engaged in a decades-long dispute over rights to the Helmand River, on which Iran depends to irrigate land in its arid south. The construction of dams on the Afghan side…

The Week

The Taliban’s ‘unprecedented’ crackdown on opium poppy crops in Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have succeeded in slashing opium poppy production in the country after banning cultivation of the crop, analysis of satellite imagery and reports from the ground suggest.

The Hindu

Jaishankar kicks off BJP’s outreach bid, woos Sikhs

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Thursday met members of the Sikh community, including those who came to India following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, in West Delhi Lok Sabha constituency, as part of the BJP’s month-long outreach campaign on the completion of nine years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s…

The Independent UK

UNICEF concerned by Taliban move to bar international groups from Afghan education sector

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Bangkok Post

The Afghan valley proud of its young suicide bombers

TANGI VALLEY (AFGHANISTAN): Taliban-trained suicide bomber Ismail Ashuqullah regrets missing the chance to blow himself up at the height of the Afghan war -- like many other young men from the lush green Tangi Valley.

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