- Views & Voices
Views & Voices
BAAG is dedicated to ensuring that Afghan views and voices are heard - and are taken into account by international policymakers.
Here we reflect the views of Afghans - and the aid agencies trying to help them - on issues that affect them the most.
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16 MayAfghanistan - the media in drawdown?
An American reporter's farewell blog sounds the alarm about a possible "media drawdown...
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09 AprFrom army wife to Afghan charity worker
Top soldier's wife fights to help Afghan children ...
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12 MarStepping into the Light
How Tamana Heela’s mother defied the Taliban - and transformed her daughter’s life ...
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21 FebReviving Afghan Music
A new film aims to capture the "spirit" of Afghanistan's only vocational music school...
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14 JanThe Race to save Mes Aynak
The fight to save an ancient Buddhist city in Logar from destruction...
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06 DecWhere the snowdrifts are six storeys high
How Concern Worldwide helps people in one of Afghanistan's most remote provinces...
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28 NovEscaping a forced engagement: Farida's story
An Afghan girl tells Womankind Worldwide how she took stood up for her rights...
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14 NovSaving Afghanistan's Street Children
How Aschiana gives needy children a fresh start...
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30 OctAfghanistan: at the crossroads once more
BAAG Director Jawed Nader says Afghans must work together to build a new future...
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11 OctSarah Fane's Afghan Blog
Watch these inspiring videos from Afghan Connection to mark International Girls' Day!...
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11 SepMaking a Difference
Afghan refugee Matiullah Haidar wins prestigious award for charity work...
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02 AugAgainst all Odds
Photojournalist Guy Smallman on the challenges facing Afghanistan’s would-be Olympians...
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04 JulIn Their Own Words:
An online writing project helps Afghan women strengthen their voices...
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24 MayWaiting for Peace
Peace campaigner Mirwais Wardak on Afghans' feelings about the peace process...
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19 AprBreaking the Silence
Stephen Brown describes how SERVE’s projects open up a new world for deaf Afghans...
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29 FebBridging the Divide
Activist Omaid Sharifi's efforts to unite Afghan youth...
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23 DecFrom Bonn to Kabul: a Tale of Two Cities
How an Afghan street child altered Nadeem Kazmi's view of international diplomacy...
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11 DecHow Bonn failed Afghan women
Why Afghan activist Selay Ghaffar came away disappointed from the Bonn Conference...
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20 NovMental Illness: the Unseen Epidemic
Tearfund's Bruce Clark on how thirty years of war has damaged Afghans' mental health...
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01 NovMaking 'The Boy Mir'
Journalist, Shoaib Sharifi, talks about filming an Afghan youth over the last decade...
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20 OctSarah Fane's Afghan Blog: Education
Dr Sarah Fane of Afghan Connection describes her recent visit to Afghanistan...
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