June 23, 2011
Now that the Taliban have taken over most of the villages in Balkh province, residents wonder what's next.
June 20, 2011
Children in Afghanistan find the time to play, have fun and be kids, despite the challenges they face from working and poor health.
June 16, 2011
Every year, throughout the world, millions of young girls are forced into marriage. This traditional practice spans continents, language, religion and caste.
Afghanistan, Africa, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, Yemen, Asia, Culture, Middle East, Human Rights, Poverty
June 16, 2011
Stephanie Sinclair shares the experiences child brides face. She discusses the need for their voices to be heard and the challenges she faced as a journalist who witnessed their struggles and abuse.
June 13, 2011
A glimpse into the life of Afghans as the Taliban take over their villages—swiftly, unchallenged, and barely noticed by the rest of the world.
June 8, 2011
Stephanie Sinclair and Cynthia Gorney discuss the phenomenon of child marriage on NPR's All Things Considered.
June 7, 2011
Anna Badkhen discusses the recent Taliban takeover of several villages in Afghanistan's Balkh Province.
June 4, 2011
Four weeks after the Taliban announced the beginning of their annual spring offensive, the insurgents have quietly taken over most of the Balkh province.
June 2, 2011
Thousands of people have been injured by years of wartime activity in Afghanistan, but only a select group of people receive aid for their disabilities.
May 27, 2011
The veneration of Samaruddin, a policeman killed by NATO after he murdered two American soldiers last month, represents the discontent in Faryab Province with the NATO presence in Afghanistan.
May 26, 2011
Land mines and old ordnance kill or injure, on average, 40 Afghans each month. This week, four children in Mazar-e-Sharif were the newest victims.
May 20, 2011
Who controls Faryab province, the police or the Taliban? For the time being, the region is in the grip of these two warring groups, but the police force is overwhelmed and losing ground.
May 19, 2011
UNICEF reports that 57 percent of marriages in Afghanistan involve girls below the legal age limit. But, in the isolated north, girls are not the only ones married young.
May 13, 2011
Osama bin Laden's death may have made headlines in the United States, but, in a village in northern Afghanistan, few have heard of the Al Qaeda leader.
May 13, 2011
In a country where the trauma never ceases, at least two-thirds of Afghanis suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. With suffering almost completely unrecognized, prayer is the only therapy.
May 11, 2011
"Bin Laden was just one man. Why should his death bring any changes here?" said Colonel Nur Ahmad, the deputy police chief of Jowzjan province.
April 18, 2011
There are unique challenges ahead for Afghanistan's growing journalistic community.
April 4, 2011
A glimpse into the life of Afghans in the northern Balkh province almost a decade after the U.S.-led invasion.
April 1, 2011
The murdered U.N. workers are the latest trauma for Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan, a city that's seen centuries of horrific killings.
March 31, 2011
In Afghanistan, literacy is a villager’s only chance to break the cycle of poverty. But despite billions of dollars of aid, the children of Oqa and other far-flung settlements remain illiterate.
March 26, 2011
Every month, 40 Afghans are killed or injured by Soviet-era land mines. Meet two of them.
March 22, 2011
A village timekeeper's historical narrative of Afghanistan depicts elements of the past that offer predictions for the future.
March 18, 2011
The enormous threat that cheap, available opium poses to the north’s children.
March 15, 2011
Women's shelters in Afghanistan offer little protection and no "long turn assurances" for women fleeing domestic violence.
