‘Strong beyond the world’s imagination’

‘Strong beyond the world’s imagination’

In spite of the overwhelming odds against them, a spirit of feminist resistance exists among Afghanistan’s girls and women. Jen Ross reports.

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NI 548 - South Africa 30 years later - March, 2024
A 11-year-old Afghan girl stands in the middle of a crowd at the Sheidaee camp near to Herat, Afghanistan. Her father is asking for around $300 for Shirbaha, a price paid for a bride.Photo: Mahshad Jalalian/Alamy

One kidney village

Where the debt-ridden and desperate come to heal from kidney donation surgery, by Subi Shah.

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NI 542 - A world to win - March, 2023
Girls for girls

Girls for girls

Defying the Taliban’s resurgent war on women.

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NI 535 - Romani lives matter - January, 2022
Illustration: Emma Peer

Introducing... Hibatullah Akhundzada

The unlikely ‘friendly face’ of the Taliban.

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NI 534 - The future of work - November, 2021
All images accompanying this article are from Bihać, Bosnia, close to the border with Croatia. 
Worldly goods: an Afghan asylum-seeker with blankets and a sleeping bag donated by a local NGO, January 2021.  Due to their existence in unheated makeshift shelters, refugees often risk hypothermia and serious illness.Photo: Michele Amoruso

Beaten back

The vicious game of hounding out asylum-seekers in Europe continues in defiance of international law. Katie Dancey-Downs reports.

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NI 531 - Vaccine equality - May, 2021
Photo: Rahmat Alizadah

Southern Exposure: Rahmat Alizadah

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

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NI 519 - How to avoid climate breakdown - May, 2019
Photo: DPA picture alliance/Alamy

And finally... Steve McCurry

US photographer Steve McCurry, best known for his 1984 portrait of the green-eyed ‘Afghan Girl’, speaks to Graeme Green about America, human nature and whether or not the world has gone mad.

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NI 513 - A better media is possible - June, 2018
Jamila Afghani

Making Waves: Jamila Afghani

A profile of Afghan campaigner for women’s education and rights Jamila Afghani, who started by persuading the imams. Beena Nadeem talks to the unassuming trailblazer

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NI 506 - Brazil's soft coup - October, 2017
Country Profile: Afghanistan

Country Profile: Afghanistan

The facts, figures, images and NI assessment of Afghanistan.

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NI 504 - The Equality Effect - July, 2017
Photo courtesy of WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education)

Making Waves: Sakena Yacoobi

Veronique Mistiaen meets Afghanistan’s ‘mother of education’, who for more than two decades has been transforming lives through community-based learning.

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NI 495 - Trade unions - rebuild, renew, resist - September, 2016
Afghanistan’s rebel verse

Afghanistan’s rebel verse

Poetry has traditionally been a powerful medium to comment on social and political life in Afghanistan, but it is now mostly for men, writes Ruchi Kumar.

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NI 495 - Trade unions - rebuild, renew, resist - September, 2016
Rights on bikes

Rights on bikes

Afghan women are cycling to empowerment. By Kelsi Farrington.

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NI 492 - Technology justice - May, 2016
Photos: Marielle van Uitert

Safe but not free

Valeska Hovener and Marielle van Uitert hear how two Afghan women who have fled family abuse are learning to move on.

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NI 484 - Capitalism is spinning out of control - July, 2015
Photo: Wolter Peeters

Making waves: Barat Ali Batoor

The Afghan photo-journalist is using his own experience of asylum to help others. He speaks to Michelle Slater.

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NI 477 - Big oil RIP? - November, 2014
Photo: AHRDO

Making Waves: Afghanistan's theatre of the oppressed

Encouraging people to act out their trauma results not just in empathy but in action. Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn has witnessed the transformation first hand.

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NI 473 - The politics of language loss - June, 2014
The US is pushing the Afghan government to sign an agreement that would allow US troops to arrest, detain and extradite any Afghan deemed to threaten its security interests.The US Army

Afghanistan: time to move on?

Ewa Jasiewicz wonders what the US troops will be leaving behind.

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NI 471 - The war on whistleblowers - April, 2014

Dead bastards

Heaven help military personnel who blow the whistle. Alexa O’Brien is tracking the case of Chelsea Manning.

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NI 471 - The war on whistleblowers - April, 2014
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A word with Fawzia Koofi

Afghan MP Fawzia Koofi wants women to get out of their traditional closet.

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NI 465 - How the war on pirates became big business - September, 2013

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
South Africa 30 years later March, 2024
A world to win March, 2023
Romani lives matter January, 2022
The future of work November, 2021
The future of work November, 2021
Vaccine equality May, 2021
How to avoid climate breakdown May, 2019
A better media is possible June, 2018
Brazil's soft coup October, 2017
The Equality Effect July, 2017
Trade unions - rebuild, renew, resist September, 2016
Trade unions - rebuild, renew, resist September, 2016
Love in the time of Ebola June, 2016
Technology justice May, 2016
Capitalism is spinning out of control July, 2015
Big oil RIP? November, 2014
The politics of language loss June, 2014
The war on whistleblowers April, 2014
The war on whistleblowers April, 2014
How the war on pirates became big business September, 2013
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