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30 Sep 2017 3 minute read

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Making Waves: Jamila Afghani

Afghan women’s rights campaigner Jamila Afghani talks to Beena Nadeem.

14 Jun 2017 5 minute read

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Death and re-birth of a lake: How water came back to the dry Aral Sea

The once-world's fourth biggest lake was thought gone forever and a source of decades of environmental disaster. But something...

6 Dec 2016 2 minute read

This article is almost seven years old.

Samsung can never see my face: story of a secret trade unionist

Samsung has a reputation for modern technology, but also a history of medieval conditions for its estimated 1.5 million...

1 Sep 2016 3 minute read

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Making Waves: Sakena Yacoobi

Veronique Mistiaen meets Afghanistan’s ‘mother of education’, who for more than two decades has been...

1 Sep 2016 4 minute read

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Yezidi refugees: stranded sisterhood unites to draw strength through adversity

Thousands of Yezidi women and children remain hostages of Islamic State. Maria Serrano reports.

1 Jun 2016 1 minute read

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Southern Exposure: Imal Hashimi

Smoke and ash in Afghanistan.

6 Apr 2016 1 minute read

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Afghanistan Memory Box

A victim-led exhibition of those who have suffered nearly 40 years of uninterrupted conflict, by AHRDO.

9 Dec 2015 6 minute read

This article is almost eight years old.

‘I want my story to be heard’

Hakim Young meets Khalid Ahmad, who survived the US bombing of a hospital in Afghanistan. ...

10 Sep 2015 3 minute read

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Where is Asia in the world?

Iris Gonzales reports on a conference seeking to create a fairer economy for a region notorious for cheap...

1 Jun 2015 5 minute read

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Dirty games

Azerbaijan will be showing its friendly face this month as it hosts the European Games. But it’s what is going on behind the...

12 May 2015 3 minute read

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Afghanistan’s women rangers

Gelareh Darabi reports on the country’s first female park rangers in a new Al Jazeera documentary.

24 Apr 2015 3 minute read

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Rula Ghani – the voice of a nation

Mari Marcel Thekaekara is delighted that the Afghan First Lady is being listened to.

3 Dec 2014 4 minute read

This article is almost nine years old.

‘Afghan women keep the business of life going’

As the London Conference on Afghanistan starts, Zulaikha Rafiq explains why women’s rights must be high on...

1 Nov 2014 2 minute read

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A place to feel free

A group of young Chechens is battling to save their social club, reports Alice Lagnado.

22 Aug 2014 3 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

What lies behind Europe’s murky oil deals with Azerbaijan?

EU politicians’ vested interests in the resource-rich country are supporting the regime’s suppression of human rights....

1 Aug 2014 2 minute read

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PHOTO ESSAY: The tailors of Kabul

Rich Mallett gets inside access to Afghanistan’s tailoring trade.

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