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Taliban Rule Strips Afghan Women of Their Right to an Education

Taliban Rule Strips Afghan Women of Their Right to an Education

By Genevieve Hack, BSc Development Economics The Taliban have ordered women across Afghanistan to stop attending higher educational institutions with immediate effect, in its latest step to restrict the freedoms of Afghan women. The announcement has made Afghanistan the only country in the world where girls and women are denied

India Sends Aid to Distraught Afghanistan: A New Plan to Deal with the Taliban?

India Sends Aid to Distraught Afghanistan: A New Plan to Deal with the Taliban?

By Mohammad Ibrar, MA South Asian Area Studies On 22 February, India sent over 2,500 metric tonnes of wheat to Afghanistan via the land route through Pakistan. Carried in 50 Afghan trucks, the wheat will be handed over to the UN’s World Food Programme in Jalalabad. This aid

What Has Changed: Women in Afghanistan

What Has Changed: Women in Afghanistan

By Chris Hoellriegl, MSc. Development Studies When international troops left Afghanistan on 30 August and the Taliban took over the last bits of the capital Kabul, the rest of the world seemed paralyzed with shock. After two decades of war and peace building efforts, many feared that the notoriously brutal