Afghanistan

In an appalling decision, the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber II decided not to grant the Prosecutor’s request to open an investigation into alleged crimes committed in Afghanistan.

Crossfire, IEDs, nighttime raids have been blamed for civilian casualties.

Afghan women used to be championed by almost everyone. Now they’re all but forgotten.

Nearly half of the country that is caught between the two sides of the seesawing conflict. The constant fighting has deprived these rural Afghans of most of the improvements — schools and institutions — at the center of concerns over peace negotiations.

Afghan Taliban Open To Women’s Rights – But Only On Its Terms

Decades of factional wars, the Taliban rule, and the losses sustained during the insurgency and counter-insurgency have left millions of Afghan women widowed, children orphaned, and men disabled.

As headlines blair possible peace talks between the U.S. and the Taliban, and with its intersection of politics and filmmaking, Hassan Fazili’s Midnight Traveler, is bound to be one of the festival circuit’s most discussed pictures this year.

Although the current Afghan government is publicly committed to women’s rights and empowerment, women continue to face significant barriers.

The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) shares the findings of a study on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) among Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) children in Kabul that provides a broader picture of the situation on-the-ground.

Forgotten films of the Cold War era are being brought back to life, in a documentary by Montreal filmmaker Ariel Nasr.