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By Shafik Mandhai/Source: Al Jazeera National institution says documents are of academic value, but laws may restrict researchers’ ability to access them. The British Library has decided not to acquire an archive of Taliban documents […]

After the killing of Farakhunda, women marched to the Afghan Supreme Court. Now, “We only feel secure in our homes” Elizabeth Schaeffer Brown and Jason Brooks Brown On March 19, 2015, 27-year-old female Islamic studies […]

STATEMENT Afghan Women’s Network (AWN) 13th August 2015, Kabul, Afghanistan Afghan Women’s Network (AWN) strongly condemns the recent deadly terrorist attacks, which resulted in killings and injuries of large number innocent civilians, especially women and […]

Remedies for Forced Marriage brings together expert commentaries by lawyers and activists working on the issue of forced marriages and interference with choice in marriage in four different countries: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and the UK.

For Habiba and the approximately 600 local women vying for public sector jobs, the route to employment has been fraught with disappointment: Officials have been known to demand bribes of 50,000 Afghani ($850), for hiring female teachers.

Interview with Karim Lahidji, FIDH President, following the 14 July 2015 agreement between Iran and the “P 5 + 1” (United States, Russia, China, France, United Kingdom and Germany) on the Iranian nuclear programme.

In this newly published research, titled “Politics and Governance in Afghanistan: The case of Kandahar,” AREU’s Ashley Jackson provides an overview of sub-national governance in the southern province of Kandahar.

In the United States, campaigns for the presidential election of 2016 have already begun. This might be an occasion for a realistic discussion of the enormously important challenges which we now face, not only in the America, but also throughout the world. But will the central issues be discussed? Or will the campaigns focus on personalities and trivia?

We all know that being a writer is hard. Being a woman writer, with all that industry bias and those glass ceilings out there, is even harder. But nothing can quite describe the daring, sometimes terrifying, experience of being a woman writer in Afghanistan

The previous Afghan government believed that America was crucial to solving this problem. Former President Karzai expected America to use its power to force Islamabad to abandon its support for terrorism.