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Against all odds: The Afghan women becoming entrepreneurs
Rukhshana Media
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August 19, 2025
By Hania Forotan In a house in a quiet residential district of Kabul, a 25-year-old woman named Nahid sits at her sewing machine making traditional Afghan clothes. On the other side of the city, Nargis, a few years younger at 22, is busy taking...
Fazlur Rehman: Forced Deportation of Afghans Hurts Kabul–Islamabad Ties
TOLONews
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The leader of Pakistan’s Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F), Maulana Fazlur Rehman, said in a joint press conference with other parties in Islamabad that the forced expulsion of Afghan refugees would damage relations between Islamabad and Kabul. He...
Education instead of war! Skilled workers instead of austerity measures for our nurseries and day-care centres!
World Socialist Web Site
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August 19, 2025
In recent weeks, the rank-and-file “Action Committee, Nurseries & Education” has been founded in Berlin to take up the fight against the ongoing deterioration of conditions for nursery and day-care-centre workers, children and parents. One result...
Afghan leaders and women activists to discuss peace in Islamabad
Pakistan Today
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August 18, 2025
ISLAMABAD: A research institute in Islamabad is set to host Afghan leaders and women activists for a dialogue on regional peace and stability, organizers announced on Monday. In recent months, Pakistan and Afghanistan have seen improvements in...
Situation of Afghan refugees in Pakistan discussed
Business Recorder
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August 19, 2025
ISLAMABAD: The UN Refugee Agency –the UNHCR and Afghanistan have emphasised that, considering the limited timeframe for repatriation of Afghan refugees, additional time is required to ensure the transfer of personal belongings and the dignified...
Berlin urges Pakistan to take back over 200 Afghans
Dawn
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August 19, 2025
BERLIN: German foreign ministry spokesman Josef Hinterseher has said more than 200 Afghans waiting to be offered sanctuary in Germany had been deported by Pakistan to their Taliban-run home country in recent days and the German government was...
'No-one comes for us': The women trapped in Afghanistan's mental health system
BBC
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August 18, 2025
Mahjooba NowrouziBBC Afghan Service, in Kabul ShareSave BBC visited a mental health centre that is struggling to cope with the number of patients High on a hill in the west of the Afghan capital, Kabul, behind a steel gate topped with barbed wire,...
Health assessment reveals multiple challenges for Washtenaw County's immigrant community
WEMU - Michigan
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August 18, 2025
RESOURCES: Washtenaw County Health Department Ruth Kraut Washtenaw County Immigrant Health Assessment: August 2025 Washtenaw Health Project TRANSCRIPTION: Caroline MacGregor: You're listening to 89.1 WEMU. I'm Caroline MacGregor. And today, we're...
CARE’s Closure Signals a Deeper Crisis in Afghan Resettlement Policy
The Diplomat
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August 18, 2025
At the end of July, the U.S. State Department’s Coordinator for Afghan Relocation Efforts (CARE) – not to be confused with the humanitarian agency of the same name – officially shut down. The State Department’s CARE office was established after...
The culture’s all been countered — so how can teens rebel?
The Times
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Given that 58 per cent of teachers are said to vote Labour, and only 5 per cent Tory, I imagine Sir Keir Starmer has high hopes of the 16-year-olds allowed to vote for the first time in 2029, so long as they have been attentive in class. But is it...
Afghan Women Still Barred from Education and Work, UN Says
TOLONews
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The UN Special Representative for Women in Afghanistan has said that four years into the current rule, women remain excluded from government structures as well as the right to education and work. Susan Ferguson stressed that the continuation of...
Our shameful past has a vital message about immigration
The Observer
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‘East of Aldgate one walks into a foreign town”, foreigners “swamping whole areas once populated by English people”. The “substitution of a foreign for an English population” has created “increasing bitterness of feeling”. No, not Robert Jenrick...
Afghan women say studying in Scotland has given back dreams taken by Taliban
STV News
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August 18, 2025
A group of female Afghan medical students have said studying in Scotland has given them back a dream that was taken away by the Taliban. Monday marked a year since nineteen women left Afghanistan with the help of the Linda Norgrove Foundation....
Activists Press Berlin to Transfer 2,000 Afghan Refugees Stranded in Pakistan
Khaama Press
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August 18, 2025
Activists are urging Berlin to urgently transfer 2,000 Afghan refugees stranded in Pakistan, warning that arrests and deportations risk sending them back into dangerous conditions in Afghanistan. Human rights defenders, civil society groups, and...
UN warns of ‘normalization’ of women’s rights crisis in Afghanistan; IEA rejects claims
Ariana News
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August 17, 2025
A major regional dialogue involving Afghan leaders and women activists will be held in Islamabad on August 25-26, with organisers stressing that the gathering is not against the Islamic Emirate, but is intended to foster peace and stability in...
Afghanistan – Four years after the Taliban’s return to power (15.08.25)
France Diplomacy
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August 18, 2025
Four years after the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, France reaffirms its solidarity with Afghan people and its determination to activate all the levers it has available to improve the fate of the Afghan population. The decisions taken...
Immigration to the UK: legal and illegal
Madhyamam
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August 18, 2025
Immigration is a contentious political issue in the UK. Like most countries the United Kingdom has always had immigration and always shall. There has always been some opposition to immigration. There was no non-white immigration on any serious...
Afghan leaders, women activists to hold dialogue in Islamabad next week: think tank
Dawn
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August 18, 2025
An Islamabad research institute is set to host Afghan leaders and women activists this week to discuss the regional peace and stability, organisers said on Monday. Pakistan and Afghanistan have witnessed an improvement in bilateral relations after...
I have a second family and home in Scotland, says Afghan medical student
Northern Scot
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August 18, 2025
A woman who fled Afghanistan to pursue her childhood dream of becoming a doctor has said Scotland is now her second home. Muzhda Iqbal said she had “lost all hope” after the Taliban banned women from university education. In August 2024, she...
Virginia Sues Trump's VA over Education Benefits
Military.com
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August 18, 2025
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares on Thursday sued President Donald Trump's Department of Veterans Affairs, asking a federal appeals court to force the VA to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that guarantees veterans full education...