Roya Sadat, a prominent Afghan filmmaker, has won a prestigious award at the International Film Festival of South Asia (IFFSA Toronto) for her latest film Sima’s Song.

Richard Lindsay, the United Kingdom’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan, has announced that he, along with Harriet Harman, the UK’s Special Envoy for Women and Girls, met with a number of Afghan women leaders and activists in London.

Indian media outlets have reported that during a press conference held by Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban’s Foreign Minister, in New Delhi, female journalists were not allowed to attend; an action that has sparked outrage and condemnation among Indian journalists and politicians.

In a city where the sound of turning book pages once echoed through every corner, a heavy silence now rests over the wheels of the Charmaghz Mobile Libraries. The team of this cultural and educational initiative announced on Tuesday that due to “restrictions” and “operational challenges,” they have been forced to halt the operations of their 17 mobile libraries in Kabul; libraries that, since 2018, had opened a window of hope and knowledge for more than 40,000 children.