Afghans are worried that the Taliban’s suspension of the polio vaccination campaign makes their children vulnerable to the potentially life-threatening disease.
UN rights chief Volker Turk launched a four-week session of the Human Rights Council with a call for global leadership to avert a "dystopian future," invoking urgent warnings about the treatment of women in Taliban-led Afghanistan and Ukrainians under near-constant Russian attack.
Afghanistan is one of the largest recipients of humanitarian aid from the European Union, EU officials said on August 27, one day after saying it was appalled by a new decree issued by the Taliban-led government further restricting the lives of women.
Thousands of Afghans were evacuated to Albania after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021. Nearly three years on, dozens remain stranded in the Balkan nation as they wait to be resettled to third countries.
The Taliban celebrated the third anniversary of its return to power in Afghanistan with a military parade on August 14 amid what international aid groups say is one of the world's largest and most complex humanitarian crises.
The Taliban has created "the world's most serious women's rights crisis" since returning to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says.
Afghan farmers, already reeling from natural disasters that have struck the impoverished country in recent months, have criticized the Taliban's move to impose ushr, an Islamic tax, on their harvests.
Anti-Afghan sentiment in Iran has been on the rise in recent years, especially after a mass influx of refugees and migrants following the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021.
Pakistan has reopened the key Chaman-Spin Boldak border crossing with Afghanistan after a nine-month closure that resulted in financial losses and rising anger on both sides.
The oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan and Iran is fueling a global push for "gender apartheid" to be recognized as a crime under international law. What is it and what is the path to recognition?
An Iranian filmmaking duo shot the story of millions of Afghans living for decades in Iran without rights. Alireza Ghasemi and Raha Amirfazli cast real Afghan refugees, secretly shooting in locations where their cast cannot legally go. In the Land of Brothers screened in Karlovy Vary in July.
At least 13 Afghans have received the death penalty in Iran so far this year, according to the Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights.
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