The Russian invasion is sucking up attention, funding, and resources. Aid workers say it’s starting to cost lives. The UN’s appeal for Ukraine is more than 80 percent funded for this year. In comparison, the UN response plan for Afghanistan is around 38 percent funded, Yemen’s is around 27 percent funded, and Sudan’s is around 20 percent funded.
The trend will not merely exacerbate the income divide of local communities, it will worsen the cultural and ideological divide. Local news vacuums tend to get filled by national news — which is more partisan and more ideological — or through social media.
While the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit ended with net commitments to double spending on weapons and to increase by eight-fold the number of troops in Europe, the total of hungry people worldwide now marks an unprecedented record.
An internal United Nations report details escalating Taliban violations of human rights—and little U.N. leverage.
In the 10 months since the Taliban retook the country … the country has gone backward at vertiginous speed. The Taliban have reversed most of the social, economic, and political advances made in the 20 years of the Afghan Republic.
Afghan Voices is a new publication from The Afghan Digest that features Afghans telling their own stories in their own words. First up: A former professor and activist’s experience living in hiding in Kabul.
How young people’s news habits and attitudes have changed amid rising concerns about news distrust and news avoidance, increasing public attention to social issues such as climate change and social justice, and the growth of newer platforms such as TikTok and Telegram.
“We’ve been here before. We know what acting slowly does,” said Jeremy Taylor of the Norwegian Refugee Council about the unprecedented drought that’s pushing the Horn of Africa to the brink of famine.
How local Ukrainian ‘Suspilne’ (Public Broadcasting) is bringing trusted information to audiences in wartime.
The Supreme Court barred a lawsuit against a U.S. Border Patrol agent for entering the property of a U.S. citizen without a warrant and assaulting him.
The Boston asylum office approved 15.5% of cases between 2015 and 2020, the nations second lowest rate.
The Maine organizations argued in their report that the Boston office is “dominated by a culture of suspicion and distrust toward asylum seekers.”
They said they found evidence of national origin and language bias, as non-English speakers and those hailing from African and the Middle Eastern nations were less likely to be granted asylum.
Poland is rushing to build a border wall and taking a harder line against those helping asylum seekers from the Middle East and Africa while welcoming Ukrainians.
On August 30, 2021, nearly 20 years after they arrived, the last US troops left Afghanistan. Now, some six months later, the world has largely moved on from the story of Afghanistan and the people who remain there in the wake of the US withdrawal and the reinstatement of Taliban control. In this episode of Big World, SIS professor Tazreena Sajjad joins us to discuss what we get wrong about Afghanistan when we only talk about the ways that other nations, including the US, intersect with it.