Sep 16, 2021
The Taliban’s rise to power in Afghanistan is spurring urgent concern about the safety of data that aid groups have collected over 20 years. They have inherited databases and technology that could be used to identify people linked to previous regimes or international...
Sep 15, 2021
What lessons should humanitarians take away from the past 20 years in Afghanistan? Was the role of Western aid agencies helpful or hurtful? Were they impartial or complicit? Source: The New Humanitarian Podcast, with CEO and host Heba Aly, 9/15/21, Rethinking...
Sep 13, 2021
Opinion | An age old story: bring in your own and crush the local. In its rush to help Afghanistan, the humanitarian world risks superimposing costly, parallel systems that ignore what already exists: a functioning public health sector, Afghan NGOs waiting for...
Sep 9, 2021
This sums up the future of Afghanistan. 250,000 lives lost, 20 years lost, trillions spent, and the United States managed to replace the Taliban and Al Qaeda with the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Haqqani as Interior Minister. A Taliban spokesman on @TOLOnews: "A woman...
Aug 25, 2021
After a thirty-four-hour sleepless marathon, we finally got three CSFilm colleagues and their families through the hell of the Taliban checkpoints and the crushing crowds. Was able to navigate them to Polish troops who were outside the perimeter looking for people...
