Sep 17, 2021
Taliban government announces re-opening of high schools for boys but makes no mention of girls. Only male teachers to report to work. Watch CSFilm’s “L is for Light D is for for Darkness” Source: The Guardian, Emma Graham-Harrison in Kandahar,...
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...
Sep 2, 2021
Seven filmmakers and their families have now safely arrived in countries outside Afghanistan. Sixteen of our Afghan journalists, documentary filmmakers, cultural workers, and rights advocates still need to get out. The remaining are making life and death choices about...
