Afghanistan
Afghanistan ( (listen), also pronounced /ævˈɡænᵻstæn, ævˈɡɑːnᵻstɑːn/; Pashto/Dari: افغانستان, Pashto: Afġānistān [avɣɒnisˈtɒn, ab-], Dari: Afġānestān [avɣɒnesˈtɒn]), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south; Iran to the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to the north; and China to the northeast. Occupying 652,000 square kilometers (252,000 sq mi), it is a mountainous country with plains in the north and southwest. Kabul is the capital and largest city. The population is around 32 million, composed mostly of ethnic Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 24 July 2023 English
The report Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls in Sport: A Handbook for Policy Makers and Sports Practitioners was published by UNESCO and UN Women in 2023. It was authored …
sexual abuse scandals in countries including Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Cameroon, Congo … power of those running footballing bodies.39 In Afghanistan, Football Federation President Keramuudin Kareem … Aghazada, the former secretary general of the Afghanistan Football Federation and member of the Asian … disincentive to players to report. In both the Afghanistan and Haiti cases, victims, survivors and whistle-blowers …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 20 June 2023 English
This report was published by the World Economic Forum, Switzerland, on June 20, 2023. The Global Gender Gap Report was first published in 2006 and this 2023 edition is the …
countries in the region, while Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan are at the bottom of both the regional and global … 573 █ -0.030 -4 145 Chad 0.570 █ -0.008 -3 146 Afghanistan 0.405 █ -0.030 - The Global Gender Gap Index … Gender Gap Index score (68.4%). Similar to 2022, Afghanistan (40.5%) ranks last, at the lower end of the … percentage points compared to the mean. In fact, Afghanistan registers the lowest performance across all … the bottom of the distribution, apart from Afghanistan, the countries that attained less than 40% parity …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 12 June 2023 English
The Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) published this report on June 12, 2023. This is the second report in the series; the first was …
Ukraine (0 percent), Yemen (4 per- cent) and Afghanistan (10 percent).51 Globally, about 7 of 10 peace … English Textbooks Promote Gender Inequality in Afghanistan.” Pedagogy, Culture & Society 31(3): 403–418 …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 April 2023
The State of the World’s Children is an annual report published by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) since the year 1980. Each edition aims to promote awareness on key …
Mozambique Nigeria Ethiopia Chad Indonesia Brazil Afghanistan Cameroon Democratic Republic of the Congo United … extreme weather events in countries including Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Somalia and Ukraine. As …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 April 2023 English
This report was published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in April 2023. It is the seventh edition of UNODC’s biennial Global Report on Trafficking in …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 20 March 2023 English
First History Lessons is a series of three books published under ‘Revisiting the Craft of History Writing for Children’, a project by the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK), Kolkata. …
come into India from Bangladesh, Pakistan or Afghanistan and begun living here before 31 December 2014 … is also divided. In Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, the majority sect of Sunni Muslims often oppress …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 20 March 2023 English
The World Happiness Report 2023 has been published by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, a global initiative of the United Nations. It was released on March 20, 2023, United Nations …
position for the sixth year in a row. War-torn Afghanistan and Lebanon remain the two unhappiest countries … 138 Sierra Leone 136 2.392 Lebanon 137 1.859 Afghanistan 7.804 7.586 7.530 7.473 7.403 7.395 7.315 7.240 … 138 Sierra Leone 136 2.392 Lebanon 137 1.859 Afghanistan 7.804 7.586 7.530 7.473 7.403 7.395 7.315 7.240 … 138 Sierra Leone 136 2.392 Lebanon 137 1.859 Afghanistan 7.804 7.586 7.530 7.473 7.403 7.395 7.315 7.240 …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 28 February 2023 English
This report was published in February of 2023 by Access Now for the #KeepItOn coalition. The report is authored by Zach Rosson, Felicia Anthonio, Carolyn Tackett, and the Access Now …
Jordan: 4 Libya: 4 Sudan: 4 Turkmenistan: 4 Afghanistan: 2 Burkina Faso: 2 Cuba: 2 Kazakhstan: 2 … active conflict zones in Ukraine and Yemen Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh … world for five consecutive years Bangladesh: 6 Afghanistan: 2 China: 1 Pakistan: 1 Sri Lanka: 1 Despite … ordered shutdowns during protests, and China,97 Afghanistan,98 and Sri Lanka99 blocked social media services …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 29 January 2023 English
The Ministry of Education, Government of India, released the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2020-21 on January 29, 2023. The first AISHE report was published in the year …
students are from Nepal (28.26%), followed by Afghanistan (8.49%), Bangladesh (5.72%), Bhutan (3.8%), Sudan … Students' Distribution in Top 10 Countries NEPAL AFGHANISTAN BANGLADESH UNITED STATES UNITED ARAB EMIRATES … which Nepal contributes 28.25%, followed by Afghanistan 8.4%, Bangladesh 5.7% and United States 5.1% …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2023 English
UN Women and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs published this report in 2023. It analyses progress on gender equality across the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a …
for example, 1.1 million girls over age 12 in Afghanistan can no longer attend school. The subsequent …
