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Education in crisis. The mix of poverty, insecurity & lack of trained teachers in Ghor made many parents refrain from sending. Empty classrooms, fake girls’ schools, teachers’ salaries siphoned off by warlords: in Afghanistan’s west, the shadows of strongmen loom large.

    FIDH and its member organization, the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI), express the disappointment at recent statements by Iranian high-level officials regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran’s persistent […]

Environment News Service (ENS) By Zabihullah Ghazi KHOST CITY, Afghanistan, August 28, 2013 (ENS) – Once-green mountainsides across Afghanistan are still being stripped of their trees as the long-running process of deforestation continues. The head […]

I congratulate Armanshahr colleagues for their success, because they are a small group but full of energy, new and useful ideas.

The Uzbek government continues to force its citizens to work in cotton fields, in hazardous conditions and for no or negligible pay. Meanwhile, the Government has indicated no interest in ending the forced-labour production system.

Despite constant dangers, Afghan women’s poetry continues to flourish. One outlet for women’s poetry is Mirman Baheer, Afghanistan’s largest literary society for women. Mirman Baheer operates in Kabul with over 100 members.

Global Voices Alexander Sodiqov An international conference on water cooperation ended in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, on August 21. More than 900 representatives from about 70 countries and organizations attended the conference. Yet the […]