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  1. Erased from public life: Afghan women face one of the world’s deepest gender crisis, finds UN
  2. thedocs.worldbank.org
  3. Afghanistan Humanitarian Response Plan 2024
  4. Afghanistan Humanitarian Response Plan 2025
  5. Russia becomes first country to recognize the Taliban government
  6. Russia Becomes First State to Recognise Taliban as Rightful Afghan Government
  7. IFES Election Guide
  8. 2019 Afghan presidential election — Grokipedia
  9. Women in Afghanistan
  10. Protecting the right to education for all Afghans
  11. 2023 Herat earthquakes
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  13. Record 256,000 Afghan Migrants Return from Iran as IOM Warns of Dire Funding Shortfall
  14. International Criminal Court investigation in Afghanistan
  15. 2025 Kunar earthquake
  16. Taliban shut down communications across Afghanistan
  17. Watchdog Says Taliban Restricting Social Media In Afghanistan Days After Internet Blackout
  18. September 30, 2025 11:19 AM
  19. Update on Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan
  20. Cross-border civilian casualties in Afghanistan: January
  21. UNESCO says 2.4 million Afghan girls denied access to further education
  22. Afghanistan: Four years on, 2.2 million girls still banned from school
  23. A Detailed Analysis of How the Taliban Erased Girls’ Education in Afghanistan
  24. spia.princeton.edu
  25. New report warns that Afghanistan’s education crisis threatens the
  26. UNICEF / AFGHANISTAN GIRLS EDUCATION BAN
  27. Afghanistan Near Bottom Of Global Gender Equality Index, UN Report Shows
  28. ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over persecution of women - JURIST - News
  29. Afghan women face near total social, economic and political exclusion
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  31. Press briefing by UN Women on the 2024 Afghanistan Gender Index launch
  32. 1. Source: UN Women. 2024. Gender Country Profile: Afghanistan. Kabul.
  33. mil 250711 ohchr01
  34. For the First Time in History, the ICC Named What Afghan Women Have Been Calling It All Along
  35. World Bank: Afghanistan’s per capita GDP falls 5.6% despite economic growth
  36. AF JCMB meeting jan 29 2014 presentation english
  37. AFGHANISTAN ECONOMIC MONITOR
  38. PRESS RELEASEDecember 10, 2025
  39. Afghanistan: Humanitarian Update, February 2025
  40. US aid cuts cost lives in Afghan quake
  41. Afghanistan opium cultivation falls in 2025, shifting regional production and trafficking patterns, says new UNODC survey
  42. Press Release
  43. Aid Cuts Shut 600 Health Facilities Across Afghanistan, Affecting 4 Million - Khaama Press
  44. “No One Cares About Us Anymore”: How U.S. Aid Cuts Have Intensified the Crisis for Women and Girls in Afghanistan - Refugees International
  45. Maternal health under the Taliban in Afghanistan: current status and challenges - PMC
  46. Over 400 health centers shut down in Afghanistan following US aid suspension
  47. AFGHANISTAN: Recent improvements threatened as 17.4 million people face high levels of acute food insecurity; 3.7 million children suffering acute malnutrition (IPC Report)
  48. IFES Election Guide
  49. Afghanistan Drops Three Spots in Global Corruption Rankings
  50. Afghanistan Falls Further in Global Corruption Ranking, Drops Four Places in 2025
  51. Taliban flogged more than 1,000 people in public in 2025, figures show
  52. 1.2.8. Capital and corporal punishments
  53. Under Taliban Whips, the People of Afghanistan: 827 Humans Flogged in Public in Less Than 10 Months - Hasht-e Subh
  54. Taliban Flog Man and Woman in Public as Corporal Punishment Persists
  55. UN calls on Taliban to end public executions, lashings and stonings in Afghanistan
  56. Afghanistan’s Taliban responsible for revenge killings, torture of former officials
  57. UNAMA Report: Extrajudicial Killings Persist Under Taliban Rule as Repression of Women Continues - Hasht-e Subh
  58. Human rights situation in Afghanistan: MAY - JUNE 2023 UPDATE
  59. Afghanistan has lost almost 60% of its journalists since the fall of Kabul
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  61. RSF Outlines Dismal Outlook of Media Industry in Afghanistan, Especially Women Journalists
  62. Afghanistan
  63. Afghanistan: Media continues to erode under three years of Taliban rule / IFJ
  64. Afghanistan: Dramatic loss of independent media and free expression over past two years
  65. AFGHANISTAN • JX Fund
  66. Afghanistan Remains Among Worst Countries for Press Freedom, RSF Index Shows
  67. Afghanistan ranks 175th out of 180 nations in press freedom index
  68. Surge in Civilian Casualties following Afghanistan Peace Negotiations start - UN Report
  69. Civilian casualties set to hit unprecedented highs in 2021 unless urgent action to stem violence
  70. UNAMA Releases Report on Impact of IEDs on Civilians in Afghanistan
  71. UN: 34 Civilians killed in Afghanistan in three months
  72. UNAMA / PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS
  73. AFGHANISTAN ANNUAL REPORT 2012 PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS IN ARMED CONFLICT
  74. AFGHANISTAN ANNUAL REPORT ON PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS IN ARMED CONFLICT: 2019
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  76. UNAMA: More Than 40,000 Afghan Civilians Killed in Conflict Between 2009 and 2021, Victims Still Await Justice
  77. Cross-border civilian casualties in Afghanistan: October
  78. Afghanistan: Humanitarian Update, March 2025
  79. Millions facing acute food insecurity in Afghanistan as winter looms, UN warns
  80. Afghanistan: Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2026 Summary
  81. Key figures Total returns (cumulative since 20 March 2025) 1,191,500
  82. Situation Afghanistan situation - Operational Data Portal
  83. Afghanistan Returnees Overview 1 - 31 Jan 2026
  84. Afghan diaspora
  85. Powerful earthquakes strike western Afghanistan, death toll roses to more than 2,000
  86. Afghanistan Earthquake 2025: Kunar Province Faces Deadliest Disaster in Decades
  87. July 4, 2025 10:25 AM