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Read more21 Apr“Don’t punish Afghan women and girls twice over": BAAG Statement on World Bank Spring Meetings 2022
BAAG Statement on World Bank Spring Meetings and sustaining support for Afghanistan and civil society’s role in ensuring aid effectiveness
As major donor governments and...
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Read more09 Sep
As Afghan refugees arrive in the UK, what can you do to help?
Charities need clothing, baby items, smartphones and cash donations, plus spare rooms or your time.
About 10,000 Afghans are forecast to be flown to the UK this year for...
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Read more31 AugAfghanistan Update; United Kingdom
Dear Colleagues,
AFGHANISTAN UPDATEThe developments in Afghanistan over the last few weeks have been extremely difficult to witness. We know many of you, like thousands of people...
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Read more17 AugUK civil society groups urge government not to abandon Afghan people
In a letter sent to the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom, members of the...
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Read more20 MayAfghanistan in April 2021; Key News
Peace and Politics
The peace conference arranged by Turkey, Qatar and the United Nations which was set to be hosted in Istanbul, Turkey was postponed because of Taliban’s...
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Read more19 AprAfghanistan in March 2021; Key News
Peace and Politics
On 19th March, a conference on the Afghanistan peace process was held in Moscow at which Russia, the United States, China, and Pakistan released a joint...
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Read more31 MarUrgent Demand for Inclusion in the “Accelerated Afghan Peace Talks”
Afghan society including civil society organisations, community leaders, religious scholars, youth, women activists and networks, victims, professional organisations, religious scholars, Tribal/...
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Read more17 MarAfghanistan in December 2020 and January 2021; Key News
Peace and Politics
On 15th December, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the USA met with Taliban negotiators...
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Read more10 MarAfghanistan in February 2021; Key News
Peace and politics
Nearly one year after the agreement that the US signed with the Taliban aiming for a reduction in violence and withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan...
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Read more29 DecComic about Afghan policewoman
A graphic story by Cristina Durán - Miguel Á. Giner Bou and Oxfam
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This graphic story...
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Read more10 DecAfghanistan in November 2020; Key News
Peace and Politics
A report by the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan has revealed that Australian special forces had killed 39 people in...
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Read more09 NovAfghanistan in October 2020; Key News
Peace and Politics
UNAMA reported that peace talks in Doha have had no...
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Read more06 NovAfghanistan in September 2020; Key News
Peace and Politics
Amid intra-Afghan peace talks and intensifying violence, Abdullah Abdullah, chairperson of Afghan High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) visited...
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Read more30 SepA House Divided
Can Afghan Elites resolve their differences in the pursuit of peace?
This report has highlighted that reaching peace in Afghanistan means addressing some of the many...
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Read more15 SepBecause She Matters: Ensuring women’s meaningful participation in peacebuilding in Afghanistan
Since the fall of the Taliban government, women in Afghanistan have made valuable strides in pushing for their rights and for their voices to be heard. Despite political rhetoric on inclusivity...
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Read more11 SepAfghan Women Demand a Just and Accountable Peace
Dear Leaders of the Member States of NATO and the United Nations,
As we mark nineteen years since the devastating attack on the World Trade Center which claimed more than 3,000 innocent...
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Read more11 SepAfghanistan in August 2020; Key News
We are very pleased to be able to resume the publication of Afghanistan This Month. Production of the ATM was affected by staff changes and by the pandemic. We wish all our subscribers...
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Read more19 AugProvincial Women’s Networks Perspectives and Recommendations for Intra-Afghan Negotiations
Following the historic National Consultative Peace Jirga, which endorsed the release of the remaining 400 Taliban prisoners, all milestones for beginning the Intra-Afghan negotiations are achieved...
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Read more13 AugOpen Letter by Afghan Women to the Taliban
We, women, have borne the brunt of the four decades of conflict. As wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters we have suffered terribly.
For the past two years, Afghan women have been...
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Read more07 AugAfghan Peace Talk - Letters to Women World Leaders
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Read more08 JunThe Family Support Helpline: Report of Gender Based Violence in Five Provinces of Afghanistan
This report has been prepared by the Afghanistan Capacity Development and Educational Organisation (ACDEO) with the support of the British and Irish Agencies Afghanistan Group (BAAG) and it is...
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Read more17 MayTHE CIVIL SOCIETY WORKING COMMITTEE CONDEMNS THE ATTACKS ON THE AFGHAN PEOPLE IN KABUL AND NANGAHAR
The members of CSWC condemn any act of terror on the population and the ones on the maternity hospital in Kabul[1] and a funeral in Nangahar...
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Read more12 MayA TALE OF TWO PRAGMATISMS: How to increase the meaningful participation of women in Afghanistan’s police force
The process of including women in the Afghan police force goes back to the 1960s. It was boosted after 2001 by international support for the Security Sector Reform and Women, Peace and Security...
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Read more10 AprAfghanistan must not be left behind as it braces for the Coronavirus pandemic
To ensure that humanitarian aid is able to reach the most vulnerable people in Afghanistan, we reaffirm the United Nations' call for a humanitarian ceasefire and urge Secretary Pompeo, European,...
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Read more05 SepAfghan Civil Society Organisations' open letter to the US Congress
Open Letter of Civil Society Joint Working Group (CS_JWG)
To Congress of United State of America
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