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Experts from the U.S. Institute of Peace provide the latest analysis and perspective on the world’s critical hot spots, U.S. and global security and issues involved in violent conflict, based on the Institute’s work on the ground and with key individuals, governments and organizations. They give interviews and background briefings to journalists and write for news outlets around the world.
On Day of the Girl, Afghans Call for Reopening of Schools for Females - TOLO News
At the same time, the United States Institute of Peace and international institutions have expressed concern about the situation of girls in Afghanistan and called for girls' rights to be honored in the country. Girls above sixth grade are not allowed to go to school and universities are also closed to them. Hadya, a sixteen-year-old 10th grader, said that...
Second Roundtable on Documenting violations in Afghanistan - Raoul Wallenberg Institute
On 26-27th July 2023, RWI, the US Institute of Peace and the Afghanistan Human Rights Coordination Mechanism at Freedom House co-organised a roundtable at the USIP premises in Washington DC for US- and Canada-based organisations that in different ways engage in documentation of...
As the Taliban Curbs Women’s Rights, Advocates Demand Action - U.S. News
In December – as many around the globe were preparing for the holidays – Sama, a former attorney, remained hunkered down in her house in Kabul, Afghanistan, trying to comprehend how her world had changed. The Taliban had just released a series of edicts robbing Afghan women of more of their hard-won freedoms...
Afghan women show solidarity with Iranian protesters, face harsh Taliban crackdown - Fox News
Iranian women have taken to the streets to protest the country’s repressive laws against women, and women in neighboring Afghanistan are taking notice. Widespread protests erupted across cities in Iran after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini on Sept. 16 while she was detained by the morality police for violating Iran’s strict laws requiring women to cover their hair in public. What began as initial outrage over Amini’s tragic death...
Underfunded and restricted: The struggle of Afghan women’s rights NGOs - Devex
In her distress, she sought counseling in March from an Afghan women’s NGO. When staffers saw her bloodied face, they knew something was wrong. But when they asked her what happened, she said she had only “fallen down,” and feared going to a doctor. After much urging, Karima...
House Committees Grill U.S. Envoy Over Taliban Control in Post-U.S. Afghanistan - Newsweek
Congressional lawmakers raised concerns with Washington's special envoy to Afghanistan in hearings this week about the future of the war-torn country with a resurgent Taliban and U.S. troops withdrawn. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) noted the Taliban's...
A targeted attack - CTV National News
The death toll in the latest atrocity in Afghanistan is now at least 85. That's 85 schoolgirls murdered. Some as young as 13. These are just four of the innocent children killed simply for going to school. With U.S. and NATO troops about to withdraw completely from the country, the timing may be...
'Entire Country' Believes Taliban is Behind Girls' School Bombing in Afghanistan, Expert Says - Newsweek
The Taliban has denied involvement in a bombing at a girls' school in Kabul that killed at least 50 people over the weekend, but an expert on human rights and the rule of law in Afghanistan told Newsweek their denials don't really matter. "They can deny it as much as they want, but..."
Afghanistan Ambassador Fears for Women Under Taliban as U.S. Troops Leave - Newsweek
The United States' decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan without peace agreements in place between the Taliban and the Afghan government has left many fearful about what the future will hold for women in the region. Roya Rahmani, the Afghan ambassador to the U.S., said she is worried...
USIP's Belquis Ahmadi: “Democracy Is the Afghan Government’s Best Defense Against the Taliban” - Sirius XM
Belquis Ahmadi, senior program officer with the United States Institute of Peace’s Afghanistan team, joins Julie Mason to talk her latest piece in the USIP “Democracy Is the Afghan Government’s Best Defense Against the Taliban”.