Afghanistan

UN experts appalled by Taliban announcement on capital punishment

“Stoning people to death or burying them under a wall constitutes torture or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or.

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UN agency warns aid shortage will push Afghanistan’s children further toward deadly malnutrition

UNICEF says 875,000 children in Afghanistan will suffer from life-threatening acute malnutrition this year.

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China: Taliban made written pledge to not allow terrorist activities on Afghanistan’s soil

Foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said it is hoped the Taliban will adopt moderate and prudent domestic and foreign policies

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Kabul cab drivers upset over plan to change color of yellow and white taxis

Taxi owners say they are barely able to put food on the table for their families but now have to.

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Blinken says Muslim world condemns Taliban’s restrictive bans on women’s education

Blinken said that the Muslim world has condemned the Taliban’s restrictive bans on women’s higher education in Afghanistan.

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UN warns of potentially devastating locust outbreak in northern Afghanistan

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization said sightings of Moroccan Locust in the country’s ‘wheat basket’ is a huge concern

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Many aspects of human rights situation in Afghanistan remain deeply concerning: Niklasson

Niklasson says Taliban’s ban on UN’s women employees creates challenging obstacles for UNAMA to deliver fully on its important mandate.

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Heads of three media outlets and a journalist arrested in Khost

A string of arrests of journalists has been recorded in the past year, including that of a French-Afghanistan national still.

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UN’s female employees in Afghanistan ‘harassed, detained’: UN report

The report said that Taliban authorities continued to crack down on dissenting voices this year, in particular those who speak.

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China, Pakistan ‘passed on world’s message’ to Taliban in trilateral meeting: analysts

One analyst says the world has ‘reached its limit’ and that the Taliban must accept foreign demands and cut ties.

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