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Female health workers: Women make up only 27% of general practitioners, 18% of specialists, and 29% of nurses. Maternal mortality: Afghanistan records 620 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. Midwife …

Five years after the Taliban returned to power, Afghanistan continues to face a deepening humanitarian crisis driven by poverty, unemployment, drought, and declining international humanitarian assistance. Millions of Afghans, particularly …

Women’s employment: Women make up only 6–7% of household income earners. Economic loss: Excluding women from work and education costs Afghanistan an estimated US$1.4 billion annually, equivalent to 2% of …

Afghanistan is among the countries most vulnerable to climate change, with intensifying droughts and rapidly declining groundwater reserves threatening access to safe drinking water across the country. The impact of …

A group of Afghan diaspora members and women’s rights activists gathered in Hyde Park, London, on 5 July to protest the Taliban’s ban on girls’ education in Afghanistan. The demonstrators …

Local sources in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province say a female doctor, Gulalai, was killed at her home in Surkh-Rod district late on Sunday night (21 June) in an attack by …

The book “Marzia: A Judge’s Fight for Afghan Women’s Rights”, written by former Afghan judge and women’s rights advocate Marzia Babakarkhail, was launched at an event held in the UK …

“If I also give ushr to the Taliban, what will be left for my family to eat?” This is what Mohammad Ishaq, a farmer from Tagab district in Kapisa province, …

Monday, June 8 I sit with my back against the wall, following the news. I watch videos recorded by ordinary people, and each one brings me to tears. I remember …

Following the arrest of several women in Herat by the Taliban over not wearing the chador and the tightening of restrictions on women’s dress, residents of Jabrail town staged a …