File photo Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated on Friday, April 21 after the Shawwal moon is sighted in Afghanistan. According to Afghan media, Taliban Supreme Court has announced to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr on Friday. Afghan government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid announced the sighting of the moon on Twitter and said that Friday will be the first day of…
—File photo The United Nations has issued a warning to withdraw from Afghanistan in May. According to the United Nations, the Afghan UN Women staff will leave Afghanistan in May if they do not get a work permit. The United Nations says that banning women from working in Afghanistan will worsen the economic crisis. The…
“UN national personnel – women and men – have been instructed not to report to UN offices, with only limited and calibrated exceptions made for critical tasks,” according to a statement issued on Tuesday by its office in Afghanistan. The ban is the latest in a series of discriminatory measures that restrict Afghan women and girls…
Photo courtesy of Google Afghanistan’s only women-run radio station has resumed broadcasting after a week-long blackout. According to foreign media, the Afghan authorities stopped radio broadcasts for a week for playing music during Ramadan. According to reports, the radio station ‘Sadai Banuwan’ means ‘Voice of Women’ and was started 10 years ago. According to foreign…
The White House says withdrawing from Afghanistan has not weakened the US alliance or US standing globally. The Biden administration released a summary of the US troop withdrawal report from Afghanistan. According to the White House, there were no signs that more time and funding would have changed the Afghan situation. The report said that…
Dr. Ramiz Alakbarov, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan, said that amid severe underfunding, the move would “further undermine humanitarian partners’ ability to support the population, especially the most vulnerable such as women and girls”. “The world cannot abandon the people of Afghanistan at this precarious moment,” Dr. Alakbarov insisted, before urging the international community “not…
File photo The Taliban has stopped Afghan women workers of the United Nations from working in Afghanistan. The spokesperson of the United Nations has said in his statement that the Taliban are seeking details from the authorities on preventing women staff from working. According to the news agency, UN female staff were exempted from the…
Three British nationals are being held by the Taliban in Afghanistan. According to a news agency report from London, the three detainees include a tourist, a charity doctor and a citizen who runs a hotel in Kabul. However, the details of how long these people have been in the custody of the Taliban have not…
Since the beginning of the year, several civil society activists and journalists have been detained for speaking out against Taliban policies that restrict women and girls’ access to education, work, and most other areas of public life. “No one should be detained for speaking out in defence of their fundamental rights and the rights of…
US Secretary of State Anthony Blanken has said that the US is working to bring dozens of Americans back from Afghanistan. While giving a statement to the US Congress, Foreign Minister Anthony Blanken added that 44 Americans in Afghanistan are working to help. These Americans want to leave Afghanistan and are being held by Taliban…
