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2. Agency Co-ordinating Body for Afghan Relief - Wikipedia

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   ACBAR was created in August 1988, [1] in response to the demand from the many aid agencies and their international donors for a coordinated approach to humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan and for Afghan refugees in Pakistan. The organization was originally based in Peshawar, Pakistan, where its main focus was coordinating NGOs' humanitarian ...

3. Women in Afghanistan - Wikipedia

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   Of these, 15 million are male and 14.2 million are female. [18] About 22% of the Afghan people are urbanite and the remaining 78% live in rural areas. [19] As part of local tradition, most women are married soon after completing high school. Many live as housewives for the remainder of their lives.

4. Treatment of women by the Taliban - Wikipedia

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   A Taliban representative stated: "The Taliban's act of giving monthly salaries to 30,000 job-free women, now sitting comfortably at home, is a whiplash in the face of those who are defaming Taliban with reference to the rights of women. These people through baseless propaganda are trying to incite the women of Kabul against the Taliban".

5. International Assistance Mission - Wikipedia

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   The International Assistance Mission (IAM) is the longest continually serving non-profit organisation in Afghanistan. They are a well-respected NGO working to improve lives and build local capacity in health, development and education. They are a partnership between the people of Afghanistan and international Christian volunteers, who have been ...

6. Gender roles in Afghanistan - Wikipedia

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   Except in Kabul where women under the PDPA were encouraged to assume more assertive public roles, this evolutionary movement came to a halt in 1978. Conservative mujahidin leaders waging a jihad (struggle) against foreign encroachment, both military and ideological, were imbued with the belief that sexual anarchy and social ruin would result if ...

7. United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan - Wikipedia

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   UNAMA's headquarters is in Kabul and it maintains a field presence across Afghanistan, as well as liaison offices in Pakistan and Iran. The Mission has around 1,164 staff: 770 Afghan nationals, 298 international staff and 68 UNVs. (Figures from June 2021.)

8. Kamila Sidiqi - Wikipedia

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   Sidiqi is a founding member of Leading Entrepreneurs of Afghanistan Development (LEAD). [10] Founded in 2013, the organization was renamed to Afghan Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AWCCI) in 2017. [11] She is also a member of a number of other influential international women’s associations, including the Steering Committee for the ...

9. Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees - Wikipedia

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   Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees (DACAAR) ( Danish: Den danske komité for hjælp til afghanske flygtninge) is a non-political, non-governmental, non-profit humanitarian and development organization working to improve the lives of the Afghan people since 1984. DACAAR work in rural areas and aim at improving rural livelihoods through ...