MAZAR-E-SHARIF (SW) – A number of local media professionals in the provinces have expressed concern that with the advent of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, restrictions on local journalists and media work have increased.
KABUL (SW) – The Afghan Journalists Safety Committee has said while marking the International Women’s Day that the situation of women journalists in the country has been worrying in recent months.
KABUL (SW) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate has facilitated women on the International Women’s Day.
MONITORING (SW) – More than 80,000 global supporters and activists have signed a petition calling on the international community to urgently stand up for women’s rights in Afghanistan and hold the Taliban accountable for their unrelenting suppression of women and girls’ rights.
KABUL (SW) – Media houses and journalists across Afghanistan continue to face challenges nearly seven months on since the establishment of the Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan.
MONITORING (SW) – Afghanistan has one of the highest maternal death rates in the Asia and the Pacific region at 638 deaths per 100,000 live births, and the situation is expected to get worse without timely and appropriate interventions for maternal health.
KABUL (SW) – The Director General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation office in Afghanistan, Dr Muhammad Saeed Al-Ayash, has assumed office in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Wednesday 4 March 2022.
LASHKARGAH (SW) – The Islamic Emirate is seeking international funds to support and revive media houses facing eminent closure, said an official on Sunday.
MONITORING (SW) – Sirajuddin Haqqani, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Islamic Emirate, had urged Afghans who have left the country after the fall of the previous government, to return and serve the nation.
MONITORING (SW) – Russian forces have declared a ceasefire to allow humanitarian corridors out of the Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha.
MONITORING (SW) – The World Food Program has said that 22.8 million people – half of the population – are projected to be acutely food insecure in 2022,1 including 8.7 million at risk of famine-like conditions.
MONITORING (SW) – Urging the world to engage with the Taliban in Afghanistan, the top UN envoy in Kabul has said that the Afghan people cannot be truly assisted without working with the de facto authorities in the war-ravaged country.
