News Afghanistan Employment: Afghanistan: Worsening Taliban Repression Erodes Rights
(Bangkok) – The Taliban have intensified and broadened their crackdown on human rights, particularly the rights of women and girls, in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report ...
News Afghanistan Employment: Male Afghan UN workers stay home in solidarity after Taliban bans female staff
Afghan men working for the United Nations in Kabul will stay home in solidarity with their female colleagues after the Taliban prohibited Afghan women from working for the global organization, according to a senior UN official.
News Afghanistan Employment: Afghanistan: At least 1 killed, 10 injured due to floods in Takhar province
The province reported both financial and human losses from the natural calamity. Many homes were demolished, and the flash flood devastated thousands of acres of agricultural land.
News Afghanistan Employment: House Roof Collapse Kills 7, Injures 1 in Eastern Afghanistan
It is one of the leading news outlets reporting from Afghanistan on a 24/7 basis. Khaama Press publishes stories and news art ...
News Afghanistan Employment: Afghanistan's Taliban move spokesman's office to Kandahar
KABUL (Reuters) - The main spokesman for Afghanistan's Taliban administration will move his office from the capital to the southern city of Kandahar, the information ministry said, a sign of the growing importance of the region that is home to its supreme leader. The province of Kandahar is the historical birthplace of the Taliban movement. Supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada lives there and
News Afghanistan Employment: Report on U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan critical of Trump administration
The Taliban made rapid progress in recapturing Afghanistan in 2021 after the departure of American ... part of its policy to block women and girls from accessing education or employment.
News Afghanistan Employment: From Korea to Afghanistan: Special Forces Legend Billy Waugh's Amazing Career Spanned Five Decades
Vietnam and Afghanistan wars, serving in dozens of countries in his more than 50-year career with Special Forces and the Central Intelligence Agency. Read Next: Air Force Budgets Less for Bonus Pay ...
News Afghanistan Employment: UN Condemns Latest Ban on Women’s Employment in Afghanistan
Earlier, the UN condemned prohibiting female workers from working and said the organization could not operate without its female staff. “We remind de facto authorities that United Nations entities ...
News Afghanistan Employment: Biden Afghanistan report mostly blames Trump for chaotic US withdrawal
By Nandita Bose and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday released a summary of classified reports that mostly blamed the chaotic August 2021 U.S. pullout from Afghanistan on his predecessor, Donald Trump, for failing to plan for the withdrawal he had agreed on with the Taliban. The Democratic administration's summary, drawn from top-secret State
News Afghanistan Employment: How single women and widows in Afghanistan are struggling to find their next meal
Previously about 10 per cent of educated women in Afghanistan worked in national or international organisations to support their children. If less educated, they had a range of formal and informal ...
News Afghanistan Employment: The women of Afghanistan are suffering – but not forgotten
Tonight, as elected officials and their guests gather in Washington to hear the State of the Union, women across Afghanistan are suffering under the brutal Taliban regime. Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan following the United States’ withdrawal in August 2021, they have issued more than 30 edicts aimed at severely limiting women’s freedoms. The Taliban…
News Afghanistan Employment: The Collapse Of The Legal System In Afghanistan
In January 2023, United Nations reported on the dire situation of lawyers, judges, prosecutors and other actors involved with the legal system in Afghanistan, over a year after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021.
News Afghanistan Employment: Some Taliban fighters are sick of the 9 to 5 grind, complaining they've been sucked into urban life by working desk jobs to run Afghanistan
Under Taliban rule, conditions in Afghanistan have returned to what they were in 2001 ... "Now, when someone's nominated for a government job, he first asks whether that position has a car or not," ...
News Afghanistan Employment: Taliban ban women from working for domestic, foreign NGOs in Afghanistan
The Taliban government on Saturday ordered all foreign and domestic non-governmental groups in Afghanistan to suspend employing women, allegedly because some female employees didn't wear the Islamic headscarf correctly.
News Afghanistan Employment: Four aid groups suspend work in Afghanistan after Taliban bar women
Save the Children, the International Rescue Committee, the Norwegian Refugee Council, and CARE said they cannot effectively reach children, women, and men in desperate need in Afghanistan without the women in their workforces.
News Afghanistan Employment: US slams Taliban for women's NGO jobs ban in Afghanistan
The Taliban takeover last year sent Afghanistan’s economy into a tailspin and transformed the country, driving millions into poverty and hunger. Foreign aid stopped almost overnight. Sanctions on ...
News Afghanistan Employment: Taliban Bars Women From University and Working for NGOs in Afghanistan
International aid groups are suspending their relief programs in Afghanistan after the Taliban government announced on Saturday that humanitarian organizations are barred from employing women. The ...
News Afghanistan Employment: Afghanistan’s Women Are on Their Own
Afghan women working for the government, with the exception of those doing jobs in the education and health sectors, were told to stay home and not report to work. The Taliban have also dissolved the ...