(VOVWORLD) - The UN is discussing with Taliban to seek more exemptions to its ban for female aid workers, UN aid chief, Martin Griffiths said
(VOVWORLD) -Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, has decided to dedicate the 2023 International Day of Education (January 24) to Afghan girls and women. On the occasion of an event organized...
(VOVWORLD) - Iceland is the most peaceful country in the world, according to the 2022 Global Peace Index (GPI) Annual Report of the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)
(VOVWORLD) - The United Nations said Thursday it would not stop providing aid to Afghanistan despite the Taliban ban on women working in the country’s aid sector
(VOVWORLD) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called on all countries to put peace at the center of all their words and actions
(VOVWORLD) - The UN Security Council has called on the Taliban to reverse policies targeting women and girls in Afghanistan, expressing alarm at the “increasing erosion” of human rights
(VOVWORLD) - UN Secretary-General spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Saturday that the UN chief has deep concerns about the Taliban's ban in Afghanistan, which prohibits women in Afghanistan from working for domestic...
(VOVWORLD) - Pope Francis, in his Christmas message on Sunday, called for an end to the conflicts in Ukraine and other countries, and said the world is in dire need of...
(VOVWORLD) - Afghanistan's Taliban-run administration on Saturday ordered all local and foreign NGOs to stop female employees from working, in a move the UN said would hit humanitarian operations...
(VOVWORLD) - The Taliban government has suspended university education for all female students in Afghanistan, the latest step in its brutal clampdown on the rights and freedoms of Afghan women
(VOVWORLD) - It’s said that the food culture of Saudi Arabia is heavily influenced by other cuisines of the region, so visitors to the Kingdom have a pleasant variety of dishes to choose from....
(VOVWORLD) -The Taliban executed a murderer in Farah province this week, the first public execution since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August last year
(VOVWORLD) -The ongoing Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit marks the first meeting between the top leaders of Russia and China since Russia began its special military operation in Ukraine. The two-day summit in Samarkand city...
(VOVWORLD) -September 11 this year marks the 21st anniversary of bloody terrorist attacks against targets in the US, which killed nearly 3,000 people. Since this world-changing incident, the US and the...
(VOVWORLD) - On August 15 2021 just a few days after the US military announced its withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban entered the capital Kabul to take control of the country. One...
(VOVWORLD) - The EU on Sunday said it was "particularly concerned" about worsening conditions for women and girls in Afghanistan after the country's ruling Taliban violently broke up a women...
(VOVWORLD) - The US will allocate an additional 150 million USD to support Afghan children and women and address food insecurity in the southwestern nation, State Department spokesman Ned Price said...
(VOVWORLD) - First on our show today, we’d like to acknowledge feedback from Bidhan Chandra Sanyal of India who comments on our program on a daily basis
(VOVWORLD) - The international community is rushing to assist Afghanistan after a powerful 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck the country early on Wednesday, killing more than 1,000 people
(VOVWORLD) - The Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia are large potential markets for Vietnam, one of the world’s largest tea exporters, so Vietnamese tea producers and traders are...