A delegation of OIC scholars will go to Afghanistan for talks on women's education and employment

A delegation of OIC scholars will go to Afghanistan for talks on women’s education and employment

Secretary General of OIC is addressing the meeting. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will send a delegation of scholars to Afghanistan for negotiations regarding women’s education and employment in Afghanistan. OIC Secretary General Hussain Ibrahim Taha said that discussions are ongoing with the relevant authorities of Afghanistan with the support of the International Jurisprudence…

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Funding drought forces UN food agency to cut rations in Afghanistan

Funding drought forces UN food agency to cut rations in Afghanistan

The World Food Programme (WFP) appealed for urgent funding for its operations in the country, where families are battling crisis after crisis, including growing hunger, since the Taliban takeover of 2021. Catastrophic hunger could become widespread across Afghanistan, and unless humanitarian support is sustained, hundreds of thousands more people will need assistance to survive, the…

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Afghanistan: 8 people including 5 journalists were killed in a bomb blast at a cultural center

Afghanistan: 8 people including 5 journalists were killed in a bomb blast at a cultural center

Mazar-e-Sharif: 8 people were killed and many were injured in a bomb blast during an event for journalists in Afghanistan. According to foreign news agency Reuters, eight people, including five journalists, were killed as a result of a bomb blast during an event held by journalists at a cultural center in the Mazar-e-Sharif district of…

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Afghanistan now ‘most repressive country’ for women, Security Council hears

Afghanistan now ‘most repressive country’ for women, Security Council hears

Roza Isakovna Otunbayeva, UN Special Representative and head of the UN’s Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, UNAMA, strongly condemned recent Taliban decrees that have further eroded the rights of Afghan women. However, she also urged the international community to preserve “whatever political space exists” for frank discussions with Afghanistan’s leaders, warning of rapidly deteriorating humanitarian and…

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