Taliban take control of Afghanistan, women cannot work until forced to wear burqa

[umbertino]

Afghans risk dying in freezing temperatures in Calais, charities warn

 

People who fled Taliban are starting to arrive in northern France in hope of reaching UK

 

Diane Taylor

Mon 10 Jan 2022 13.30 GMT

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/10/afghans-risk-dying-in-freezing-temperatures-in-calais-charities-warn

[umbertino]

Calls for release of Kabul University professor detained by Taliban

 

Prof Faizullah Jalal, an outspoken critic of Afghanistan’s ruling group, was arrested for alleged remarks on social media

 

Ruchi Kumar

Mon 10 Jan 2022 16.45 GMT

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/10/calls-for-release-of-kabul-university-professor-detained-by-taliban

[umbertino]

‘The Taliban shot my wife in the head’: ex-UK government contractor

 

First in a new series about people left behind in Afghanistan, meet Asif, who worked for the UN and Adam Smith International before fleeing to Pakistan

 

Sun 16 Jan 2022 14.00 GMT

As told to Emma Graham-Harrison

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/16/the-taliban-shot-my-wife-in-the-head-ex-uk-government-contractor

 

 

 

[umbertino]

‘The Taliban are seeking revenge’: ex-cultural worker on a UK project

 

Omar is in hiding – concerned about his five daughters, he has applied to move to Britain

 

As told to Amelia Gentleman

Wed 19 Jan 2022 14.00 GMT

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/19/the-taliban-are-seeking-revenge-ex-cultural-worker-on-a-uk-project

[umbertino]

Taliban delegation travel to Norway for human rights talks

 

Oslo meeting with Afghan rulers will include allies and ‘not represent legitimisation or recognition’

 

Agence France-Presse in Oslo

Fri 21 Jan 2022 10.42 GMT

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/21/taliban-delegation-travel-to-norway-for-human-rights-talks

[umbertino]

‘I’ve already sold my daughters; now, my kidney’: winter in Afghanistan’s slums

 

Crushing poverty is forcing starving displaced people to make desperate choices

 

M Mursal and Zahra Nader

Sun 23 Jan 2022 14.00 GMT

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/23/ive-already-sold-my-daughters-now-my-kidney-winter-in-afghanistans-slums

[umbertino]

The Taliban forced Afghan TV workers into hiding. Now they’re asking Hollywood for help

 

Television industry employees once used their programs to address progressive ideas. Many are now out of work and fearful to leave their homes

 

Lois Beckett in Los Angeles

Mon 14 Feb 2022 06.00 GMT

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/13/afghan-tv-workers-taliban-hollywood

[umbertino]

‘Whatever horrors they do, they do in secret’: inside the Taliban’s return to power

 

Mazar-i-Sherif was once the most secular, liberal of Afghan cities. But 20 years of corruption and misrule left it ripe for retaking by the Taliban. Will anything be different this time?

 

Thu 17 Feb 2022 06.00 GMT

by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/feb/17/inside-taliban-return-to-power-afghanistan-mazar-i-sherif

[umbertino]

‘Is it a crime to study?’: outcry as Taliban bar girls from secondary schools

 

U-turn seen as concession to the rural and deeply tribal backbone of the hardline Taliban

 

Weronika Strzyżyńska and Akhtar Mohammad Makoii

Wed 23 Mar 2022 09.29 GMT







https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/23/girls-in-afghanistan-school-taliban
 

[umbertino]

Taliban U-turn over Afghan girls’ education reveals deep leadership divisions

 

A lack of teachers and school uniform issues blamed for school closures but confusion is a sign of differences in vision for Afghanistan’s future

 

Stefanie Glinski in Kabul and Ruchi Kumar

Fri 25 Mar 2022 15.02 GMT

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/25/taliban-u-turn-over-afghan-girls-education-reveals-deep-leadership-divisions-afghanistan

[umbertino]

‘I am sure they will change’: Taliban swap guns for pens to learn about human rights

 

Young men who have spent most of their lives in combat are learning how to behave with civilians as the Taliban transitions from fighting to governing

 

Elise Blanchard in Kandahar

Tue 3 May 2022 14.00 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/may/03/taliban-swap-guns-for-pens-to-learn-about-human-rights
 

[ronscarpa]

On 5/3/2022 at 8:25 AM, umbertino said:

Young men who have spent most of their lives in combat are learning how to behave with civilians as the Taliban transitions from fighting to governing

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/may/03/taliban-swap-guns-for-pens-to-learn-about-human-rights
 

 

Thanks Umbertino for this very interesting article ... Blessings - RON 

[umbertino]

On 5/8/2022 at 12:49 AM, ronscarpa said:

 

Thanks Umbertino for this very interesting article ... Blessings - RON 

 

 

My pleasure, Ron...Thanks for checking it

[umbertino]

Taliban dissolves Afghanistan’s human rights commission as ‘unnecessary’

 

Four other government departments scrapped as cash-strapped regime faces $500m budget deficit

 

Reuters

Tue 17 May 2022 00.57 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/17/taliban-dissolves-afghanistans-human-rights-commission-as-unnecessary

 

 

[umbertino]

Hundreds killed after 6.1-magnitude earthquake hits Afghanistan

 

Toll expected to rise after powerful quake strikes during night near Khost, 95 miles south of Kabul

 

Shah Meer Baloch, Akhtar Mohammad Makoii and Peter Beaumont

Wed 22 Jun 2022 14.02 BST







Vid

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/22/afghanistan-earthquake-at-least-130-dead-after-magnitude-quake-strikes
 

[umbertino]

‘He’s the only American I have a relationship with’: the friendship that survived 40 years of Afghan conflict

 

Jabar, from Kandahar, met David, from Nebraska, in the late 1970s. Political upheaval threatened – but never severed – their ties

 

As told to Stefano Montali

Tue 2 Aug 2022 06.00 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/01/afghanistan-american-friendship

[umbertino]

Hypocrisy or a reason for hope? The Taliban who send their girls to school

 

The Afghan rulers’ ban on female schooling has provoked global anger, but opposition is also growing from within

 

Emma Graham-Harrison in Kabul

Sun 14 Aug 2022 10.00 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/14/hypocrisy-or-a-reason-for-hope-the-taliban-who-send-their-girls-to-school

[umbertino]

‘I daren’t go far’: Taliban rules trap Afghan women with no male guardian

 

Those without a male relative to act as a mahram are in legal limbo and unable to travel long distances

 

Emma Graham-Harrison in Kabul

Mon 15 Aug 2022 12.00 BST







https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/15/taliban-rules-trap-afghan-women-no-male-guardian

2.2 million Afghans fled country since Talibans return to power
 

[umbertino]

Four countries, six years, 7,000 miles: one Afghan family’s journey to the US

 

Zahra Amiri is among 41,000 working-age Afghans who have resettled in the US and are set to contribute $1.4bn to the US economy in their first year of work, according to new data

 

Maya Yang

Mon 29 Aug 2022 07.00 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/29/afghan-refugees-resettled-us-economy
 

[umbertino]

‘I will reach Europe or die’: three stories of Afghan refugees in Turkey

 

Having paid smugglers to organise a dangerous escape, those fleeing the Taliban face persistent hostility

 

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in Istanbul

Wed 7 Sep 2022 05.00 BST









https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/07/i-will-reach-europe-or-die-three-stories-of-afghan-refugees-in-turkey
 

[umbertino]

UN expert describes ‘staggering repression’ of women and girls in Afghanistan

 

UN mission accused Taliban authorities of harassing UN Afghan female employees

 

Staff and agencies

Mon 12 Sep 2022 20.46 BST










https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/12/un-expert-describes-staggering-repression-of-women-and-girls-in-afghanistan
 

[umbertino]

Taliban free American engineer Mark Frerichs in prisoner swap

 

Navy veteran exchanged for Bashir Noorzai, who had been held in US since 2005 on drugs charges

 

Reuters in Kabul

Mon 19 Sep 2022 13.14 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/19/taliban-free-american-engineer-mark-frerichs-prisoner-swap
 

[umbertino]

‘Being a girl is a heavy crime’: Afghan women in despair over university ban

 

Taliban prohibit female higher education indefinitely amid international condemnation

 

Zahra Joya

Wed 21 Dec 2022 12.45 GMT








https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/dec/21/afghanistan-women-react-university-ban-taliban
 

[umbertino]

Taliban minister defends closing universities to women as global backlash grows

 

Neda Mohammad Nadeem says ban was necessary to prevent mixing of genders as rare protests break out

 

 

Guardian staff and agencies

Fri 23 Dec 2022 00.52 GMT









Vid

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/23/taliban-minister-defends-closing-universities-to-women-as-global-backlash-grows
 

Edited December 23, 2022 by umbertino

[umbertino]

Taliban stop women from working for aid organisations

 

Female employees of NGOs told to stop coming to work in latest move to curtail women’s freedoms in Afghanistan

 

Jane Clinton

Sat 24 Dec 2022 18.04 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/24/taliban-stop-women-from-working-for-aid-organisations