When Heela came out tops in her 9th grade school grades last year, the 14-year-old girl ran home full of excitement, bursting to tell her family the happy news. … Now, almost eight months into the Taliban take-over, which dramatically changed education for...
Suicides rise amid a mental health crisis: With resettlement at a two-decade low, aid groups and refugees say other solutions are needed. Source: The New Humanitarian, Antonia Timmerman, 3/22/21, Desperation grows as closed borders trap refugees in...
Afghanistan is the only country in the world where the rate of female suicide is higher than that of men, and in the province of Herat almost 100 women a year burn themselves alive. Yanet Medina Navarro The olive eyes of Shaista peep between the...