Afghanistan is one of the world’s leading victims of climate change. But can its Taliban government cooperate with the international community to mitigate the crisis?
Gul Hotak and her family survive on just one meal per day -- often leftovers from neighbors. They are among the millions of people in Afghanistan, the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, who are going hungry.
Iranian border guards fired on and killed Afghan migrants seeking to cross into Iran from Pakistan, according to local reports and rights groups.
Severe winds in Afghanistan's central Ghor Province have destroyed a tent settlement where hundreds of flood victims were temporarily sheltered. Their original homes were swept away in the summer by torrential rains. The Taliban promised to build new housing, but not even basic aid has materialized.
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.
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