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Women’s Rights in Iran and Afghanistan

Women’s rights in Iran and Afghanistan are in severe danger. According to the National Library of Medicine, women’s empowerment has a direct correlation to food security, poverty rates and the...

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Afghanistan Online University

When the Taliban regained power in 2021, it repressed the rights of women in Afghanistan. In December 2022, it banned Afghan women from receiving a university education. It has been very daunting for...

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Supporting Orphanages in Afghanistan

Even though the number of orphaned/abandoned children in Pakistan is rising, in February 2022, just nine of 68 public orphanages in Afghanistan were operational in addition to 36 privately-run...

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Saving Afghanistan’s Health Care System

Despite the constitutional promise from the state to provide health care to its citizens, Afghanistan remains unable to fulfill its pledge, leaving millions of its citizens struggling with poverty and...

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SOLA Ensures Education for Afghan Girls

The School of Leadership, Afghanistan (SOLA) is the first and only Afghan-led boarding school for Afghan girls, founded in 2008. While initially established in Kabul, Afghanistan, since the Taliban...

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International Women’s Day Marches Zero in on Middle East Injustices

On March 8, 2023, thousands of people around the world, especially women, gathered to recognize International Women’s Day. Considering the ongoing global struggle for women’s rights, many of 2023’s...

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6 Facts about the State of Education in Afghanistan

The education system in Afghanistan has faced many obstacles as a result of conflicts and changes in the country’s legal structure. In 2001, only 1 million children attended school in Afghanistan....

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The Opioid Trade in Afghanistan 

Afghanistan’s opioid trade, the largest in the world, has been thriving under the new Taliban regime. Driven by a desire for economic and political stability, the Taliban’s actions around the opioid...

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Addressing Soaring Rates of Food Insecurity in Afghanistan

Acute food insecurity plagues a staggering 19.9 million people in Afghanistan, calling for urgent humanitarian assistance, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). A sovereign state in the heart of...

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Combating Poverty Amidst Political Transition in Afghanistan

From the beginning of the war in 2001 to the recent political transition beginning in 2021, Afghanistan has seen significant economic fluctuations and an upward trend in the national poverty rate,...

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