Haroun Rahimi

Bitter pill: Taliban govt shakes up Afghan medicine market Afghanistan's decision to overhaul its medicine market was meant to improve quality and boost domestic production, but industry specialists say the swift changes have led to a litany of problems.

a report on the pros and cons of the #Taliban ban of drugs from #Pakistan that shakes up #Afghanistan 's medicine market
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From Insurgency to Government: How the Islamic Emirate polices Afghanistan Much has been written about Afghanistan’s police force during the Islamic Republic, but so far almost nothing about policing under the Islamic Emirate. In August 2021, when the Taliban took over the M...

What does policing look like under the Islamic Emirate? Antonio Giustozzi examines how policing evolved since August 2021 - intelligence directorate now dominates investigations, police numbers are far lower than claimed & local Taliban commanders remain central to enforcement. bit.ly/49s8UjN

The Taliban’s Dynamic Efforts to Integrate and Regulate Madrasas And the Motives for Doing So - The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Combining Human Rights Research and Direct Engagement Worldwide

Andrew and I tried to make sense of how Taliban are changing the madrasa landscape in Afghanistan and why.

Via RWI

The Taliban’s Dynamic Efforts to Integrate and Regulate Madrasas And the Motives for Doing So

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The End of US Aid to Afghanistan: What will it mean for families, services and the economy? The full weight of the United States’ cuts to aid to Afghanistan has finally become clear. Almost all the aid that was promised – at least USD 1.8 billion – will now not be given, according to the US ...

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"The full weight of the US’s cuts to aid to #Afghanistan has finally become clear. Almost all the aid promised – at least USD 1.8 bn – will now not be given... The UN relief chief, Tom Fletcher, at the end of April, said they will “directly result in deaths'."
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Taliban Narratives (1) Books: “Who we are and why we fought” Until recently, the Taliban was a movement that wrote little about itself, in contrast to others – especially foreigners, but also Afghans – who have written so much about them. This was rooted partly...

The Emirate is writing its own history, trying to shape the narrative about why it came to power, with books by and about Taliban being published with state support. We review and analyse some of those books, uncovering themes of heroism and endurance - but are they selling? bit.ly/4ivzMkO

Migrating Poppy Cultivation: Afghan poppy farmers in Balochistan After the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) banned opium poppy cultivation in April 2022, there was a movement of some farmers from southern Afghanistan into neighbouring regions of Pakistan to gro...

After the Emirate banned #opium poppy cultivation in April 2022, some farmers moved to neighbouring Balochistan in #Pakistan to grow poppy there. AAN's @jb_AAN looks into how things have been going for them. bit.ly/4kmYsO6

In Pursuit of Virtue: Men’s views on the Islamic Emirate’s restrictions on women Martine van Bijlert and the AAN team explore the effects of the IEA restrictions on women as seen through the eyes of men.

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fascinating new report on what #Afghan men think of the #Taleban 's restrictions on women&girls. the anguish at daughters&sisters being shut out of education expressed by even the most pro-IEA interviewees is one highlight.
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The Taliban Courts and Legal System - with Adam Baczko - Negotiating Ideas Omar Sadr and Adam Baczko discuss the Taliban courts and how their legal outlook provided them a breakthrough in the conflict. Originally published in French and recently translated into English by Ox...

I was invited by Omar Sadr on his podcast Negotiating Ideas to discuss how the Taliban courts allowed them to institute Sharia law and establish social control while waging an insurgency against the third republic of Afghanistan (2004-2021). negotiatingideas.com/podcast/the-...

NEW: For over a year, the Israeli government has deliberately denied Palestinians in Gaza the minimum water needed for survival, most likely resulting in thousands of deaths.

A calculated policy.

An act of genocide. 🧵⤵️
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Sudan: Fighters Rape Women and Girls, Hold Sex Slaves Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters and allied militias have raped scores of women and girls, including in the context of sexual slavery, in Sudan’s South Kordofan state since September 2023, Human Ri...

Rapid Support Forces fighters and allied militias have raped scores of women and girls, including in the context of sexual slavery, in Sudan’s South Kordofan state.

Conflict-related sexual violence is a serious violation of international humanitarian law, or the laws of war, and a war crime.

Syria: Mass Grave in Damascus Should be Protected, Investigated The state of a mass grave in Damascus and statements by people living in the surrounding area suggest that the area is a mass crime scene and may have been the site of other summary executions

NEW: The state of a mass grave in Damascus and statements by people living in the surrounding area suggest that the area is a mass crime scene and may have been the site of other summary executions.

Mali: Atrocities by the Army and Wagner Group Mali’s armed forces, supported by the Russia-backed Wagner Group, and Islamist armed groups have committed serious abuses against civilians since the withdrawal of the United Nations peacekeeping miss...

NEW: Mali’s armed forces, supported by the Russia-backed Wagner Group, and Islamist armed groups have committed serious abuses against civilians since the UN peacekeeping mission withdrew a year ago.

Malian authorities’ failure to hold perpetrators to account has eased the way for further abuses.

How the Taliban are Institutionalizing the Propagation of Virtue and Enjoinment of Vice in Afghanistan | Afghanistan This article examines the body of rules that the Taliban has enacted to institutionalize the propagation of virtue and enjoinment of vice by presenting a critique of the institution from within the Is...

I wrote this before the new law was enacted but the overall argument still remains valid. Implementing the communal responsibility of promoting virtue and prevention of vice through the modern state is deeply problematic.

Have a read if interested:

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In #Sudan,
⚠️11 million people are internally displaced by conflict
⚠️over 500,000 have fled to Chad
⚠️over 700,000 to South Sudan

In the Daily Brief, we hear from @hrw.org colleagues interviewing those who’ve escaped to Renk, South Sudan: www.hrw.org/the-day-in-h...

#TalkAboutSudan

It is a genocide.

Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.

Amnesty International’s new landmark report concludes that Israeli authorities have committed – and still are committing - genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.

Full report, out now.

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Many people have asked for a free-access version of this article so here it is: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Taliban have banned Afghan women from attending medical institutes—the only type of modern ed allowed for females post 6th grade.

This is nothing short of a systematic femicide AND is contrary to one of the primary goals of Sharia i.e. preserving life.

#LetAfghanGirlsLearn #LetAfghanGirlsLive

Putting together an #Afghanistan scholars starter pack! Please join in go.bsky.app/N4wTQqc

NEW: Canada’s immigration detention system discriminates against people with disabilities, including through widespread violations of their right to make crucial decisions about their own lives. #IDPD2024
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UN Report Portrays Afghanistan’s Destroyed Media Since the Taliban took power in August 2021, they have largely destroyed Afghanistan’s media landscape, creating such a climate of fear that Afghan journalists cannot genuinely investigate or report. ...

Since the Taliban took power in August 2021, they have largely destroyed Afghanistan’s media landscape, creating such a climate of fear that Afghan journalists cannot genuinely investigate or report.

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I visited a #SouthKordofan camp for displaced ppl last month for @hrw.org and witnessed how #malnutrition #Starvation is killing people in #Sudan, many of them children, as warring parties block assistance and #FoodAid falls short. This is what I saw:
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Dr. Muhammad Din & I have studied female madrasas in Afghanistan and found that Afghan girls and women are doing what they can to leverage what is avaiable to them to live a self-directed life as much as possible.

Check out our article!

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