One in five returnees at Torkham border are children, UNICEF says
UNICEF warned that these children are in a “highly vulnerable and concerning situation.”...
Karzai urges Taliban to reopen girls’ schools to help prevent infant deaths
Karzai also appealed to international aid organizations to step in with urgent assistance to equip medical centers and meet the country’s growing health care ...
Young Afghan woman dies by suicide in Islamabad, sources say
Farhat, originally from Paghman district in Kabul province, had been living in Pakistan for more than four years....
First group of Afghan refugees arrives in Brazil under new civil sponsorship program
The program assigns responsibilities for housing, legal support, and social integration to non-governmental organizations....
Afghan returnees face dire conditions at border, Red Cross warns
Some of the returnees are coming back to a country they fled years ago, the ICRC reginal director said....
Zan Times awarded Pen2Pen prize
“Zan” means “woman” in Farsi. “With the name Zan Times,” Nader said, “the message is clear: it is now women’s time to tell the truth.”...
On World Press Freedom Day, EU reaffirms support for Afghan women journalists
“Today, the voice of the Afghan press is being suffocated,” several Afghan journalists and media activists said in video messages shared to mark the occasio...
UNAMA warns of mounting threats to press freedom in Afghanistan
UNAMA said Afghanistan’s media landscape is facing a steady erosion of independence....