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On International Women’s Day 2019, Afghan artists painted this graffiti on the wall of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, which was dissolved by the Taliban in 2021. The premises are now home to the “Ministry of Praying and Instructing, Promoting Virtue, and Preventing Vice”, which oversees the implementation of Islamic law.

Women in Afghanistan

“Even that red line no longer exists”

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by Selmin Çalışkan
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
The palace of Khudayar Khan in Kokand, Uzbekistan.

Central Asia

Soviet-era borders cause trouble today

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by Syinat Sultanalieva
The Islamist regime is enforcing a repressive dress code, including in Kabul.

Gender justice

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women

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by Khushboo Srivastava
Mongolia lies between two powerful neighbours.

International Criminal Court

Why Mongolia’s legal failure to arrest Putin has only limited political impact

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by Hans Dembowski
Militaristic propaganda of a totalitarian state in Teheran.

Sanctions

Advantages and pitfalls of sanctions

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by Dagmar Wolf
Coup supporters in Niger wave Russian flags.

Russia and China

BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies

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by Vladimir Antwi-Danso
by Hans Dembowski
Sign to mark an “unmarked site of suffering”.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Silence is not golden

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by Martina Rieken
Handing over emergency trauma kits to AoG’s Ukraine coordination team.

Medication supply

Pharmacists Without Borders is facing unprecedented challenges

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by Christian Splett
Contaminated for millennia: the exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

HBO miniseries

“Chernobyl”: The cost of lies

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by Mustafa Shrestha
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