Rachel Mealey: Hello, welcome to PM. Greg Mullins: In the first few days of a disaster like this it's trying to prioritise resources trying to predict where the pressure points will be where the danger areas are and trying to get in sufficient resources and emergency workers to match up with all those priorities and thinking about where they can …
For months, Shamail Naseri has been moving house-to-house to evade arrest by Taliban authorities. Naseri, along with other women’s activists, has been actively involved in providing support to vulnerable Afghan women after the Taliban-led Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan government dissolved critical state support structures like the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and after key organisations, including the largest network of women’s …
Disguised as a man, Khodayari entered the Azadi Stadium in Tehran to attend her favourite club Esteghlal FC’s match in March 2019 but she was caught by the security guards and arrested On 9 September 2019, 29-year-old Sahar Khodayari died of burn injuries a week after she immolated herself outside an Islamic Revolutionary Court in the Iranian capital of Tehran. …
Secret schools enable Afghanistan's teen girls to skirt Taliban's education ban Enlarge this image toggle caption Diaa Hadid/NPR Diaa Hadid/NPR KABUL, Afghanistan – Inside a small room in a house on Kabul's outskirts, about ten teenage girls are defying their Taliban rulers who have banned them from attending secondary school. Secret schools and loopholes Enlarge this image toggle caption Diaa …