MONITORING (SW) – A new social media campaign, #FreeHerFace, has Afghan male journalists and others posting selfies with their faces covered, in solidarity with the Afghan women journalists facing a harmful new decree.
KABUL (SW) – Widespread condemnation and concerns have poured in in the wake of the new ruling by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan regarding hijab for women and girls.
MONITORING (SW) – The Committee to Protect Journalists has said in a fresh report that the media in Afghanistan that emerged in the two decades after the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan has entered a ‘chilling new phase in its clamp down’.
KABUL (SW) – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the surge in threats, summonses for interrogation and arbitrary arrests to which journalists and media outlets have been subjected for the past two months in Afghanistan.
KABUL (SW) – The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan has urged the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate to provide immediate information on the alleged detention of two women protesters.
MONITORING (SW) – The Free Speech Hub has portrayed a grim state of affairs in the media sector in Afghanistan following the rise to power of the Islamic Emirate here.
KABUL (SW) – In the wake of some mean and opportunist attacks, Salam Afghanistan Media Organization (Salam Watandar Radio Network) continues to fight and operate on the media front in the country.
KABUL (SW) – “As humanitarian needs in Afghanistan increase, the abilities to respond to those needs are rapidly declining as WHO and UNICEF called for immediate and unimpeded access to deliver medicines and other lifesaving supplies to millions of people.
A latest study by the Committee to Protect Journalists in Afghanistan indicate 18 percent decrease in the number of female journalists and media workers in the country’s media over the past six months.
In a clear and unified stance, the EU Delegation, diplomatic missions of the EU Member States, the U.K. and the U.S. on Monday condemned string of targeted assassinations in Afghanistan.
Highlighting the reasons behind smoking among men and women, psychiatrist Juma Khan Mohammadi, said some individuals get too desperate to achieve certain goals that sometimes
