Afghanistan

The Collateral Damage in Trump’s War on the WHO: Ending Polio for Good

June 15, 2020

Already struggling with a surging Covid-19 pandemic, United Nations health agencies must now face the possible abdication of the United States’ leading role in fighting polio — just as the world gets tantalizingly close to eradicating it for good. Polio-free since 1979, the US has historically made combating the infectious disease its top funding …

Covid-19, US-UN Relations

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My Beautiful Christmas in Kabul

December 24, 2019

by Fiona Shukri

The Christmas spirit finally found me drinking whisky on a rooftop in Kabul. Given my multinational background — I’m from Boston but my father came from Iraq and my mother from London — it’s not surprising that I chose a career in foreign affairs. When people learn I spent nearly a decade in Afghanistan, …

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Hillary Clinton on Trump’s Foreign Policy: It’s All About Waiting for His Next Tweet

October 16, 2019

by Dulcie Leimbach

Hillary Clinton glided onto a stage in Manhattan with the luxury of now being a cool-eyed outsider who can sharply question foreign policy decisions being made by the Trump administration on such controversial places as China, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. Clinton was the keynote speaker at the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s daylong …

Asia, Human Rights, Syria, US Foreign Relations

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A Journey Into Terror and Truth: My Travels Alone in Afghanistan

February 13, 2019

by Johanna Higgs

ISHKASHIM, Afghanistan — I entered the country from the northeast, from Tajikistan, where I had been traveling for a month, researching the lives of women, as I have been doing across the world for years. From the small town of Khorog in Tajikistan, I hired a taxi to drive me to the border crossing. …

Gender-Based Violence, Women

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Where the Hungriest People in the World Live

October 25, 2017

by Barbara Crossette

The 2017 Global Hunger Index produced many sadly predictable findings but also worrying surprises. The report’s subtitle, “The Inequalities of Hunger,” suggests a reason. Naomi Hossain, the guest author of the report, looks at the power structures that can dictate every step of a food chain. “In food systems, power is exercised in a …

Africa, Asia, Poverty, Take a Look

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Afghanistan

The Collateral Damage in Trump’s War on the WHO: Ending Polio for Good

My Beautiful Christmas in Kabul

Hillary Clinton on Trump’s Foreign Policy: It’s All About Waiting for His Next Tweet

A Journey Into Terror and Truth: My Travels Alone in Afghanistan

Where the Hungriest People in the World Live

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