In Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan, One Woman Refuses a Life of Dependence

In Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan, One Woman Refuses a Life of Dependence

The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is withheld for security reasons

UN Expert, Amnesty Call on Taliban to Release Detained Local NGO Employees

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, and Amnesty International have called for the immediate release of six employees of a local research organization who have been held by the Taliban in Kabul since last month. The employees of the Women and Children Legal Research Foundation were detained in late July after Taliban forces raided the organization’s office, seized equipment and belonging…