Sonah Lee

Sonah Lee is a graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and has a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Vermont. She has worked on short-term assignments for the US Department of Homeland Security and UN Women.

Sonah Lee

GEOPOLITICS

Afghan Migrants Flee Iran as US Sanctions Damage Iran’s Economy

February 18, 2019

by Sonah Lee

After fleeing violence and unemployment in their home country for the relative stability of neighboring Iran, hundreds of thousands of undocumented Afghans are now returning home. The mass reverse migration is taking place just as the United States, eager to withdraw from Afghanistan, holds its most concerted peace talks with the Taliban in years. …

Asia, Geopolitics, Migration, Terrorism, US Foreign Relations

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Will Afghan Women Survive in 2014? A UN Expert Relays the Fears

October 29, 2013

by Elisabeth Braw

LONDON — Georgette Gagnon’s job in Afghanistan as the country representative for the United Nations high commissioner for human rights may sound like an impossible mission, given the country’s notorious instability and flagrant abuse of women’s rights. Yet it is not so much the pending Western troop withdrawal in 2014 that unnerves Afghan women, …

Asia, Human Rights, Women

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Life for Women and Girls in Afghanistan Grows Deadlier

March 20, 2013

by Lorraine Boissoneault

With the deadline for the departure of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan just a year away, civilian casualties in the country remain alarmingly high, says a new report from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (Unama). Although the report said the number of casualties had decreased for the first time in six …

Asia, Peace and Security, Security Council, Women

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Sonah Lee

Sonah Lee

Afghan Migrants Flee Iran as US Sanctions Damage Iran’s Economy

Will Afghan Women Survive in 2014? A UN Expert Relays the Fears

Life for Women and Girls in Afghanistan Grows Deadlier

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