The number of BBC World Service journalists working in exile is estimated to have nearly doubled, to 310, since 2020. The figures, released for the first time ahead of World Press Freedom Day, reflect press crackdowns in Russia, Afghanistan, and Ethiopia. Journalists from other countries, including Iran, have lived abroad for more than a decade….
June 6, 2021 UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Taliban insurgents show no sign of reducing the level of violence in Afghanistan to facilitate peace negotiations with the government, and appear to be trying to strengthen their military position as leverage, with the “unprecedented violence” of 2020 carrying into 2021, U.N. experts said in a…
A veteran US photojournalist and a translator have been killed in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. David Gilkey of National Public Radio (NPR) and Zabihullah Tamanna were travelling with the Afghan army when they came under fire and their vehicle was hit by a shell, NPR said. The attack also killed the driver of the…
20 December,2020 A car bomb killed at least eight people and wounded more than 15 others in Kabul on Sunday, officials said, the latest attack to rock the Afghan capital. Kabul has been hit by a wave of deadly violence in recent months despite the Taliban and government engaging in peace talks to end…
5,October 2017 European governments have put thousands of Afghans in harm’s way by forcibly returning them to a country where they are at serious risk of torture, kidnapping, death and other human rights abuses, Amnesty International said today in a new report. At a time when civilian casualties in Afghanistan are at their highest…
A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group in Kabul. Afghan women feel scared or unsafe leaving their home alone because of Taliban decrees and enforcement campaigns on clothing and male guardians, according to a report from the UN Mission in Afghanistan. The report was…
April 12, 2024 UN reported: A year since the outbreak of Sudan’s conflict, sexual and other forms of violence are rife in conflict zones and on asylum routes, while a lack of funding is hampering UNHCR’s response. A year ago, when fighting first broke out in Sudan’s capital Khartoum, 39-year-old Fatima* thought the safest option…
10/08/2023 By shutting down thousands of beauty salons across Afghanistan, the Taliban have taken another great stride toward erasing women from public life. Here are some of the other restrictions faced by Afghan women.
15 December, 2021 A new report by Amnesty international has documented war crimes and atrocities committed during the fall of the internationally backed Afghan government in August. Rights group Amnesty International held the Taliban, the United States military and Afghan security forces responsible for attacks that caused large-scale civilian suffering before the fall of the…
