By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, May 1, 2023The “Talk to Me, Not About Me” letter was prepared by 21 Afghan civil society and women’s organizations in response to the Doha meeting, where the UN and other nations will discuss recognition of the Taliban. They expressed their outrage over the Taliban’s recognition on Sunday, April 30, while Afghan women, members of civil society, and media organizations remain denied access to fundamental human rights.…
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By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews Online, May 01, 2023 at 8:50 PMAmid an ongoing international meeting of the UN in Doha, Afghans demanded that girls’ and women’s be granted access to education and work. A UN meeting chaired by Secretary General Antonio Guterres and attended by representatives of more than 20 countries and organizations was held on Monday in Doha. Some Afghan women meanwhile expressed criticism over the lack of women’s representatives in the meeting.…
AFP Report in The News, May 01, 2023DOHA: UN chief Antonio Guterres will gather international envoys at a secret location in Doha on Monday in an increasingly desperate bid to find ways to influence Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers. Considered the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis by the United Nations, Guterres’s quandary has been deepened by the Taliban administration’s move to stop girls from going to school and most women from working, even for UN agencies. The Taliban…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews April 30, 2023 at 8:24 PMMonday, May 1, the Secretary General of the United Nations will host the Doha Meeting addressing Afghanistan. The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is to give an update on a review of the world body’s critical relief operation in Afghanistan, ordered in April after the officials of the current government in Afghanistan stopped Afghan women working with UN agencies, diplomatic sources told France 24. According…
report in Khaama Press, April 30, 2023The National Resistance Council for the Salvation of Afghanistan has welcomed the UN Security Council’s resolution condemning the ban on women’s employment and has called for a solution to the current crisis in Afghanistan through national elections. The grand council comprises renowned former Afghan politicians currently in exile, including former vice president Yunus Qanouni, former Balkh governor Ata Mohammad Noor, and Mohammad Mohaqeq and others, who formed the union…
report on TOLOnews, Apr 29, 2023 at 8:41 PMIt has been two years since the Islamic Emirate takeover of the country, but there has been no reported start to practical work on the TAPI pipeline project. Previously, officials of the Islamic Emirate talked about beginning of practical work on this project. Some economists believe that the lack of support from the World Bank plus regional rivalries have caused the work on the project to be…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, April 28, 2023The U.N. Security Council’s demand to lift the restriction on women working for the U.N. in Afghanistan was denied Friday by the Taliban’s Ministry of foreign affairs. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement, “The decision to restrict Afghan women from working with the U.N. in Afghanistan is an internal social matter of Afghanistan that does not impact outside states,” the statement said.…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, April 28, 2023Ahmad Massoud, the National Resistance Front’s (NRF) leader, has pleaded with the international community not to abandon Afghanistan.Ahmad Massoud warned against engaging with the Taliban in an interview with The National while he was in Vienna for a conference of anti-Taliban figures, human rights activists and academicians. “If you think you can co-opt the Taliban with money and diplomatic ties, then you are gravely mistaken,”…
By Nazir Shinwari in ToloNews, Apr 28, 2023 at 10:57 PMIranian media reported that Ali Salajegheh, the Vice President of Iran and head of Iran’s Department of Environment, is expected to travel to Afghanistan to pursue the Helmand water rights issue. Ali Salajegheh told Iranian media that they are discussing the matter with Afghan officials and in a week or two a delegation will go to Afghanistan to follow up on the water rights issue.…
By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews Online, April 28, 2023 at 10:57 PMThe 37th meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan at the CSTO Ministerial Council was held on Thursday, the organization said. The statement said: “There was a detailed exchange of views on the situation in Afghanistan. The participants noted the persistence of unfavorable trends in the security situation, including the growth of terrorist and drug threats emanating from the territory of this country. It…