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A United Nations-led meeting held in Qatar with the Taliban on increasing engagement with Afghanistan does not translate into a recognition of their government, a U.N. official said Monday. The gathering on Sunday and Monday in Qatar's capital of Doha with envoys from some two dozen countries was the first time that representatives of the Afghan Taliban administration attended such a U.
UN says Afghanistan will not develop socially, economically unless it loosens its restrictions on women's rights
Taliban authorities were told women must be included in public life, UN Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo said on Monday as she defended a decision to sideline civil society groups at official talks in Doha.
Russian envoy to the UN Vasily Nebenzya suggested Monday that Moscow was considering dropping sanctions against the Taliban as the Afghan authorities met with representatives of the international community in Doha.
Taliban are using Afghanistan’s cricket success to their advantage – while women’s team are in exile
The most significant story of the Twenty20 World Cup was not India’s first World Cup victory for 13 years. Instead, it was Afghanistan reaching their first World Cup semi-final. Inadvertently, they also highlighted how half the nation’s population are denied the same opportunities.
The Taliban has asked Western leaders to look past its harsh edicts on Afghan women, including banning them from education and working, as they reached Doha for the first ever dialogue with the international community on Sunday.
Afghanistan's de facto leaders indirectly characterized their ban on girls' education and women's employment as cultural, religious and policy differences
The Taliban has imposed a strict interpretation of Islam in Afghanistan, with women subjected to laws characterised by the UN as 'gender apartheid' Taliban authorities were told women must be included in public life,
Making concessions to Taliban authorities by excluding civil society groups from UN-hosted talks was a price worth paying for further engagement, the EU's special envoy to Afghanistan said Tuesday.
Law students and young lawyers in Afghanistan are reporting for JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding the name of our
Two days of UN-organized talks on the situation in Afghanistan began in Doha on Sunday, marking the first time the Taliban was present. Human rights activists expressed anger and concern over the