Afghanistan is seeing a resurgence in underage brides and mothers as desperate families sell their children in order to eatSima* is 18, but has already given birth four times. Her youngest is a newborn, the eldest is four....
Read MoreFive years after the ultra-conservative Islamists retook Afghanistan, students describe male pupils being beaten for minor rule breaches and inexperienced teachers struggling to deliver lessonsBefore he leaves for Kabul...
Read MoreThe latest decree from Afghanistan’s rulers makes it impossible for women and girls to leave unwanted or abusive relationships, even with family supportWhen Fatima arrived at a district court in northern Afghanistan in...
Read MoreHome secretary indicates Whitehall talks about returns programme, a move that would shock humanitarian groupsShabana Mahmood has refused to rule out sending rejected Afghan asylum seekers back to the Taliban-controlled...
Read MoreThe comments were part of a broader address in which he condemned Nato alliesYesterday the Conservative party said that it wanted to ban political parties from distributing campaign literature in a foreign language. Announcing a...
Read MoreExclusive: Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper concerned about effect of student visa ban on female Chevening scholars from Afghanistan and Sudan The Home Office rejected an appeal from the foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, that...
Read MoreBanned from education, a clandestine reading circle meets every week to pour over novels by Abbas Maroufi, Zoya Pirzad and Ernest HemingwayFour young women sit together, waiting for the phone to ring. When the call finally...
Read MoreMajor powers have renewed diplomatic links while others seek deals to deport migrants. And all the while gender repression is getting worseAfghanistan’s Taliban government has now issued its most extreme edict yet. It is...
Read MoreHome secretary says climbdown was ‘as good as it gets’ from US president despite failure to apologise for remarksDonald Trump’s climbdown over his claim that UK troops avoided the frontline in Afghanistan has...
Read MorePM joins veterans in condemning claim that troops avoided frontlines and suggests US president should apologiseKeir Starmer has issued an unprecedented rebuke to Donald Trump for his “insulting and frankly appalling”...
Read MorePresident’s assertion that Nato troops were not on the front line in Afghanistan has sparked widespread angerKeir Starmer’s allies have launched a “Stop Andy Burnham” campaign to prevent the Labour mayor...
Read MorePresident’s assertion that Nato troops were not on the front line has sparked widespread angerKeir Starmer’s allies have launched a “Stop Andy Burnham” campaign to prevent the Labour mayor from returning...
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