Afghanistan

“The ministry of public health of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan – as the Taliban call themselves – in cooperation with relevant international agencies ...

In this regard, the authorities called on the families of the minors to collaborate with the vaccination teams in help erradicate the disease from the country. During the year, Afghanistan reported only two cases of poliomyelitis in the northeastern provinces of Pkatika and Kunar, a significant reduction from the 56 cases in 2020 and four cases in 2021, the ministry said in a statement Monday. Kabul, Dec 19 (EFE).- The Taliban began the last phase of its polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan on Monday, seeking to immunize nearly seven million children, concluding a year in which only two cases of the virus were recorded across the country.

HELSINKI, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- The underlying aim of Finland's participation in the international stabilization and reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan in ...

The FIIA report said that the effort in Finland to disguise the fact that it was motivated by a desire to foster transatlantic relations and partnerships made planning and monitoring of the Finnish involvement difficult. "It is ... The FIIA works under parliamentary supervision.

The ministry of public health of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), in cooperation with relevant international agencies launched the last round of ...

This is a significant reduction compared to 56 polio cases in 2020 and four cases in 2021,” read the statement. The Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan calls on all local officials, community elders, influencers, scholars, and parents to cooperate with vaccination teams in their communities for the successful implementation of this campaign so that no child will be paralyzed by the virus and this disease can be eradicated from Afghanistan forever.—Ariana news The ministry of public health of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), in cooperation with relevant international agencies launched the last round of the polio vaccination campaign for this year.

KABUL (Pajhwok): In his latest report on Afghanistan, UN secretary general Antonio Guterres says the country must deliver on its commitments to ...

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The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said that seven million children will be vaccinated in this campaign. According to MoPH statistics, two positive polio ...

Figures by the Ministry of Public Health show that four positive cases of polio were recorded in the country last year. Polio vaccination campaign workers asked Kabul residents to cooperate with them in the process. “It is a dangerous disease.

Kabul, Afghanistan – The Government of Japan is contributing an additional USD 1.3 million to UNFPA's response to the escalating crisis in Afghanistan to ...

The funding has supported women-centered services in Herat, Nimroz and Kandahar. Japan has also contributed to the procurement of medical equipment and supplies for reproductive health, adequate to cover at least 102,000 people in need of reproductive health services in the country. The new interventions aim to reach about half a million Afghans over a period of one year.

More than 1000 people were killed and tens of thousands left homeless when the quake hit eastern Afghanistan six months ago.

Everybody has grown up illiterate." "After the earthquake, people came and saw that residents of the area were in trouble," Mr Khan said. - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees will build two schools and a clinic in the area

Afghanistan's strict rules surrounding women mean that the responsibility of employment can fall to male children as young as 10.

“I believe Australian people have the ability to be a blessing, by sharing what they have.” “My wish is to see Afghanistan become a peaceful country one day, because these people have suffered for years and years,” Asuntha said. More than that, many children are facing an impossible decision this winter. “The biggest choice that children have to make this winter – is to eat, or to heat,” Asuntha said. “I wanted to give them the confidence that World Vision would be there, even in the most challenging moments.” “Humanitarian assistance is not sufficient for what is happening on the ground,” Asuntha said.

Labourer Rasool Badshah has moved into a new home six months after a deadly earthquake rocked eastern Afghanistan, but without his mother, who was killed by ...

"After the earthquake, people came and saw that residents of the area were in trouble. "We couldn't have built these houses, not even our children or grandchildren (could have)... we could not afford it.

When a car bomb or other Taliban attack occurred, Afghans and TCN contractors “were far more likely to be killed or injured,” said the report. “A U.S. military ...

“One of the few protections they have is the Defense Base Act for insurance, and even that is not working.” Relevant data to determine the scope of the problem is scarce, the report found. At least six times, the researchers found, the Department of Labor found that U.S. They cite the work of Matthew Handley, a Washington attorney who has worked on roughly 50 cases of workers seeking fuller compensation, mostly Nepalis. But interviews with more than 200 workers suggest that payouts for those deaths and injuries didn’t happen or were inadequate, according to the report's authors, Noah Coburn and Peter Gill. When a car bomb or other Taliban attack occurred, Afghans and TCN contractors “were far more likely to be killed or injured,” said the report. compound on the outskirts of Kabul in 2012, where he was working security. “The U.S. [Afghanistan](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/fear-hiding-frustration-afghans-left-one-year-us-evacuation-rcna41406) most likely received little or none of the financial compensation required by the U.S. or Afghanistan, they worked as cafeteria workers, janitors and often armed guards for the bases. Called third-country nationals, or TCNs, because they were not from the U.S. military bases in [Afghanistan](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/230-afghan-refugee-children-are-alone-us-families-rcna46694).

This report focuses on third-country nationals (TCNs), workers from countries other than the U.S. or Afghanistan. In 2020, approximately 65% of wartime ...

“This failure to uphold the law to protect foreign workers is one of the many human costs of the U.S. Even though the U.S. SIGAR has estimated that the U.S. - Of the Nepali contractors the authors interviewed, they found 12 cases of contractors who were injured or killed while working under U.S. contracts, and for the provision of financial compensation to their kin in case of death. The total amount of these fines amounted to just $3,250.

Attention has focused on GOP plans to probe Hunter Biden. But the White House is more worried about an Afghanistan probe, which is harder to dismiss as ...

Waltz said he is wary of efforts by Democrats to broaden the scope of a House investigation to cover the entire war, noting that an independent Afghanistan War Commission already has been established by Congress to do that. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), a Marine veteran who served in Iraq and supports a broad investigation, said that while many Republicans understand the importance of a neutral, bipartisan accounting, he fears it is “the partisans who are going to run the place.” Moulton, for example, said he supports an investigation that scrutinizes the “entirety of the conflict.” troops in the Middle East to be ready in the event of a crisis. [released to The Washington Post in February](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/02/08/afghanistan-evacuation-investigation/?itid=lk_inline_manual_54) detailed an internal conflict between the Defense and State departments over how to carry out the withdrawal. On Tuesday, lawmakers prepared an omnibus package that is expected to extend the SIV program another year but falls short of including the Afghan Adjustment Act, legislation that is meant to expand the processing of Afghan immigration cases. [The report](https://gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/HFAC-Republican-Interim-Report-A-22Strategic-Failure22-Assessing-the-Administrations-Afghanistan-Withdrawal.pdf) also said that 1,450 Afghan children were evacuated without a parent or guardian and that more than 800 U.S. Sabrina Singh, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said Austin and other Defense Department leaders “have testified extensively in open and closed hearings about the war in Afghanistan, including the U.S. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — have answered questions before and know what they are likely to be asked. [killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/01/zawahiri-al-qaeda-killed/?itid=lk_inline_manual_22) — one of the world’s most wanted terrorists and a key planner of the Sept. “From the moment the events of August 2021 happened, there was a knowledge at the moment that investigations would happen ... The administration’s ability to carry out such an operation, despite no longer having troops on the ground, was a vindication of the decision to withdraw, White House officials say, though it also highlighted a new world in which Zawahiri could live in downtown Kabul a short distance from the former U.S.

The Taliban government has suspended university education for all female students in Afghanistan, the latest step in its brutal clampdown on the rights and ...

A spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education confirmed the suspension to CNN on Tuesday. But while it has has made numerous promises to the international community that it would protect the rights of women and girls, the Taliban has been doing the opposite, systematically clamping down on their rights and freedoms. US Ambassador Robert Wood, the alternate representative for special political affairs, earlier reiterated those criticisms, telling a United Nations’ Security Council briefing that the “Taliban cannot expect to be a legitimate member of the international community until they respect the rights of all Afghans, especially the human rights and fundamental freedoms of women and girls.” Human Rights Watch criticized the ban on Tuesday, calling it a “shameful decision that violates the right to education for women and girls in Afghanistan.” “The Taliban are making it clear every day that they don’t respect the fundamental rights of Afghans, especially women,” the rights watchdog said in a statement. [Afghanistan](https://www.cnn.com/specials/asia/afghanistan), the latest step in its [ brutal clampdown](https://cnn.com/2022/11/15/asia/taliban-afghanistan-sharia-law-intl-hnk/index.html) on the rights and freedoms of Afghan women.

College classrooms were also segregated by gender, with young and middle-aged men banned from instructing female students. The Taliban banned girls from ...

[to fully cover themselves](https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2022/05/07/taliban-reinstates-order-for-women-to-fully-cover-themselves/?sh=196279e0763b) in public and last month prohibited women from appearing in Kabul's parks. Women have largely been relegated to second-class citizens in the 16 months since Kabul fell to Taliban militants. [Taliban Reinstates Order For Women To Fully Cover Themselves](https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2022/05/07/taliban-reinstates-order-for-women-to-fully-cover-themselves/?sh=196279e0763b) (Forbes) [7 Days Under The Taliban: Photos Of Kabul Under Its New Rulers](https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2021/08/21/7-days-under-the-taliban-photos-of-kabul-under-its-new-rulers/?sh=755bd37b2f0c) (Forbes) [Taliban ban girls from secondary education in Afghanistan](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/17/taliban-ban-girls-from-secondary-education-in-afghanistan) (The Guardian) The moves come as the Taliban reasserts its interpretation of Islamic law and faces increasing international condemnation for alleged human rights violations, such as alleged revenge [killings](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/04/12/opinion/taliban-afghanistan-revenge.html) against those who worked with U.S. [banned](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/17/taliban-ban-girls-from-secondary-education-in-afghanistan) girls from attending high school just weeks after its August [2021 takeover of Afghanistan](https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2021/08/21/7-days-under-the-taliban-photos-of-kabul-under-its-new-rulers/?sh=755bd37b2f0c), but allowed women to pursue higher education before this latest policy change. [multiple](https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-3cea615c4d5d6d5d7da68b593a7546f2) [reports](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64045497?at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_medium=social&at_format=link&at_link_type=web_link&at_campaign_type=owned&at_link_id=0BAAB976-808C-11ED-924F-6ACB923C408C&at_link_origin=BBCBreaking), in the hard-line Islamist government's latest break of its promise to allow women and girls to receive an education.

A letter shared by the spokesman for the Ministry of Higher Education, Ziaullah Hashmi, tells private and public universities to implement the ban as soon as ...

And, if it doesn’t work, I will have to leave the country and go to another country,” she said. Afghanistan’s charge d’affairs Naseer Ahmed Faiq said at the U.N. The international community has urged Taliban leaders to reopen schools and give women their right to public space. If that’s the case, I wish I wasn’t a girl,” she added. So, you tell me, how will a person feel in this situation?" The decision was announced after a government meeting.

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have ordered an indefinite ban on university education for the country's women, the ministry of higher education said in a ...

Responding to the ban, the International Rescue Committee said: “The closure of universities to women and girls is a chilling step backwards for Afghanistan. “They would complain to me about how they were mistreated in the classrooms and in society. Women have been pushed out of many government jobs or are being paid a slashed salary to stay at home. And the day the Taliban took over Kabul, I knew that they would ban the girls from university. “One of them moved to Kabul from a remote province, overcoming so many hardships, because she got into a prestigious university here. “I lost many years of my education last time they were in power.

The latest Taliban's restriction on female education is likely to raise concerns in the international community, which has not officially recognised the de ...

Why it matters: It's the latest revocation of women's freedoms in Afghanistan since the Taliban regained control following the U.S.' withdrawal and the collapse ...

No country can thrive when half of its population is held back." [movement](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/26/afghanistan-long-distance-travel-women-without-male-escort-taliban), [employment](https://www.axios.com/2021/09/19/taliban-kabul-female-city-employees), access to [secondary schools](https://www.axios.com/2021/09/18/taliban-exclude-afghan-teen-girls-school)and what they can and cannot [wear while in public](https://www.axios.com/2022/05/07/taliban-afghan-women-cover-faces-burqa). [established a new government](https://www.axios.com/2021/09/07/taliban-government-cabinet-afghanistan) in the country in September 2021, the group initially claimed that it would honor women's rights [within the "frameworks"](https://www.axios.com/2021/08/17/taliban-press-conference-womens-rights) of Islamic law. [a statement](https://twitter.com/hrw/status/1605255842420367370?s=20&t=_C2vUFr-jH4chqMFXALzbw) Tuesday called the decision a "shameful" one that "violates the right to education" for women and girls. [regained control](https://www.axios.com/2022/08/15/afghanistan-taliban-us-withdrawal-anniversary) of the country following the U.S. [Afghanistan's](https://www.axios.com/world/afghanistan) public and private universities, [AP](https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-3cea615c4d5d6d5d7da68b593a7546f2) reports.

The Taliban's Ministry of Higher Education has sent an order to all private and government-run universities banning women from attending.

"And we are guaranteeing all their rights within the limits of Islam." The Taliban are making it clear every day that they don't respect the fundamental rights of Afghans, especially women." invasion that expelled Taliban authority. [promised that women](https://abcnews.go.com/International/darkness-sadness-kabul-taliban-public-reporters-notebook/story?id=79506401) in Afghanistan would be allowed to work and study but "within the limits of Islam." This is a shameful decision that violates the right to education for women and girls in Afghanistan. [Afghanistan](https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/afghanistan) should be prevented from attending universities until further orders, according to a decision made by the Taliban cabinet and senior leadership of the Islamic emirate.

The US and Britain criticised the ban, which the Taliban says preserves “national interest” and women's “honour”

They are worried for the future of their children,” she said. “The pain that not only I … The decision came as many university students are sitting for end-of-term exams. The announcement came as the United Nations Security Council met in New York on Afghanistan. “We kept relying on the Taliban to reform internally – that hasn’t worked,” Baheer said, adding that the international community’s reactions towards the Taliban has only “appeased” and “emboldened them”. The US and Britain criticised the ban, which the Taliban says preserves “national interest” and women’s “honour”

The United States and Britain have condemned an order issued on December 20 by the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan banning university education for ...

Forbidding women and girls from playing sports was one of the many restrictions imposed by the Taliban after its return to power in August 2021. HRW said the ban should continue until women and girls are allowed to play sports in the country. Halima, a widow in the capital, Kabul, has already sold most of her family’s belongings to feed her five children. He later joined the Taliban and became a member of the group’s military commission in Kandahar. "The continued systematic exclusion of women and girls from virtually all aspects of life is unparalleled in this world," Turk told journalists at a Geneva press briefing. Zarifa Yaqobi, a women's rights activist who is a member of the Afghan Women's Movement for Equality, has been released from prison in Afghanistan. In recent months, Pakistan has accused the Taliban of harboring the leaders of the Pakistani Taliban, which has waged a 15-year insurgency against Islamabad. The Salang Tunnel, which is around 130 kilometers north of Kabul, was originally built in the 1960s and is a major transit link between northern and southern regions of Afghanistan. The Health Ministry for the Taliban-led government also said the number of injured in the December 17 blast had risen to 37, and said both casualty figures were expected to climb further. Afghan health officials said the death toll from a fuel tanker explosion in a tunnel north of Kabul has jumped to 31. "The Taliban continues to kill [Hazara] civilians, including women and children, in violation of Islamic and human values," Mohammad Hassan Hakimi, a Hazara activist, told Radio Azadi. Holding the blood-stained clothes of her son, Madina has staged a sit-in in Nilli to raise awareness about the killings.

The Taliban has banned women from private and public universities in Afghanistan, the latest edict cracking down on their rights and freedoms.

And, if it doesn’t work, I will have to leave the country and go to another country,” she said. If that’s the case, I wish I wasn’t a girl,” she added. So, you tell me, how will a person feel in this situation?” The international community has urged Taliban leaders to reopen schools and give women their right to public space. Everything is disappearing before my eyes and I can’t do anything about it,” said a third-year journalism and communication student at Nangarhar University. The decision was announced after a government meeting.

Women are banned from private and public universities until further notice, a Taliban government spokesman said, the latest edict cracking down on their ...

And, if it doesn't work, I will have to leave the country and go to another country," she said. If that's the case, I wish I wasn't a girl," she added. So, you tell me, how will a person feel in this situation?" The international community has urged Taliban leaders to reopen schools and give women their right to public space. Everything is disappearing before my eyes and I can't do anything about it," said a third-year journalism and communication student at Nangarhar University. The decision was announced after a government meeting.

Women are banned from private and public universities in Afghanistan with immediate effect and until further notice, a Taliban government spokesman said ...

Women are also banned from parks and gyms. They have banned girls from middle school and high school, restricted women from most employment and ordered them to wear head-to-toe clothing in public. [WATCH: Women, girls struggle for basic rights in Afghanistan one year after the Taliban takeover](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/women-girls-struggle-for-basic-rights-in-afghanistan-one-year-after-the-taliban-takeover)

FILE - Afghan women and girls demand high schools reopen to girls during a demonstration in Kabul, March 26, 2022. On Dec. 20, 2022, the Taliban ordered public ...

“The Taliban cannot expect to be a legitimate member of the international community until they respect the rights of all Afghans, especially the human rights and fundamental freedoms of women and girls. The group has reneged on its pledges and has increasingly excluded women from public life. Women are barred from visiting public places, including parks, baths and gyms.

One of the Americans being held is an independent filmmaker who had been held since August.

The Taliban have agreed to release several imprisoned Americans this year, but continues to clash with the United States over access to humanitarian aid and the [seizure of funds](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/us/politics/us-afghanistan-funds-taliban.html) from Afghanistan’s central bank after the Taliban took over. [first reported by CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/20/politics/afghanistan-detainees/index.html), and came as the Taliban moved to [suspend university education](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-women-education.html) for women. [Ayman al-Zawahri](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/02/world/asia/al-qaeda-al-zawahri-killing.html), according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, a media watchdog. [have spoken candidly](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/us/politics/american-hostages-detainees.html) about how much — and how unexpectedly — the issue of Americans detained overseas has occupied their time and resources. While only four countries held Americans wrongfully from 2001 to 2005, at least [19 countries do now](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/world/europe/griner-americans-detained.html), according to research complied by the James W. Biden said American officials were relying on commitments by the Taliban As he oversaw the chaotic and violent drawdown of U.S. The release came almost two weeks after administration officials announced that [Brittney Griner](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/12/08/world/brittney-griner-russia-ukraine-news), an American basketball player, had been freed after months in Russian custody. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Mr. Do the sources know the information? Recently, Roger Carstens, the Biden administration’s top hostage negotiator, He said it appeared to be a “good-will gesture” on the part of the Taliban.

The release of U.S. citizens coincided with fierce criticism of the Taliban as it suspended higher education for women.

Efforts to rebuild Afghanistan in the wake of economic collapse will be undermined completely. Months after its takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban said that girls would be allowed to enroll at all levels of education. The State Department declined to speculate on whether the release of the prisoners was done to lessen the anger of U.S. They are also barred from traveling long distances without a male relative and under orders to cover their faces at all times when not at home. The Taliban released two Americans detained in Afghanistan on Tuesday in an arrangement U.S. drone, said a diplomat familiar with the release.

State Department spokesman Ned Price called the release an apparent goodwill gesture on the part of the Taliban.

[took power from a U.S.-backed government](https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/afghanistan/2022/08/15/afghan-troops-fled-to-iran-amid-taliban-takeover-gop-report-says/) after U.S. A senior administration official said the U.S. government was currently assisting the two, and that they would soon be reunited soon with their families.

On Tuesday morning, a woman called Zahra was preparing to take final exams to complete her arts degree at a university in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

The ban on nearly all education for women comes amid a worsening humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. "And he had this very specific view of where women or young girls should be within the society, which is within their households. About two months ago, he says that "a rumor originated from the Taliban themselves that an edict was going to come out banning women from going to universities." "Such a decision made by Taliban has shattered my dreams," said another young woman who spoke to NPR. "This ban was in the pipeline," he tells NPR. "The U.S. Now, she said, "everything is over for me. After the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021, they banned most women and girls from attending high school. The ban has also been resisted by broad swaths of Afghan society, including "But the Taliban closed the gates of university today." [the ban was temporary](https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-education-united-nations-kabul-taliban-c07aefcb90b560bc82b60b17d9623833), in March the group [abruptly reneged on a promise](https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-education-kabul-taliban-dcdc0ba6768213009f69cc6e284d7f52) to allow most girls back to school. The female students had their last exam tomorrow," she said.

"They will soon be reunited with their loved ones, and we are absolutely gratified to see that," said a State Department spokesperson.

Griner, a 32-year-old star center for the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury, was detained at a Russian airport in February after the discovery of cannabis-derived oil cartridges in her luggage. The suspension would "seriously, possibly even fatally" undermine Taliban efforts for better relations with the U.S. The released Americans are being provided with "all appropriate assistance."

The Taliban on Tuesday released two Americans who had been detained in Afghanistan, according to State Department spokesperson Ned Price.

The U.S. She was also crying,” said a student at the time, whose name was not disclosed for security reasons. A senior administration official said: “We are glad these U.S. Out of respect for the privacy of these individuals and their families, we are not going to confirm names.” The release came the same day the

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Tuesday banned female students from attending universities effective immediately in the latest edict ...

And, if it doesn’t work, I will have to leave the country and go to another country,” she said. If that’s the case, I wish I wasn’t a girl,” she added. So, you tell me, how will a person feel in this situation?” The international community has urged Taliban leaders to reopen schools and give women their right to public space. Everything is disappearing before my eyes and I can’t do anything about it,” said a third-year journalism and communication student at Nangarhar University. The decision was announced after a government meeting.