20 May Empowering women: the case of savings groups in Afghanistan
Women’s empowerment can be defined in various ways and aspects, but has a more significant role to enable women to build their self-confidence, and appear...
Empowering women: the case of savings groups in Afghanistan
02 Jun Learning from COVID-19 disruptions to prepare for future crises
The outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) took everyone by surprise and threw the world into an unprecedented lockdown. After rolling out its action plan and...
23 May When the Water Runs Dry: What is to be done with the 1.5 million settlers in the deserts of southwest Afghanistan when their livelihoods fail?
A farmer deep in the desert of Bakwa exclaimed, "the solar will finish the water and our lives here”. Introduction In the last 5 years 48,000 new houses were...
03 Mar Let us let the ink dry on the US-Taliban deal and take a good long look at history before making any proclamations about what’s next with drug production in Afghanistan.
"Blog posts do not reflect the views of AREU but those of their authors." The venue had not been yet agreed and the colour of ink...
02 Feb The Right to Exist: A story of my trip to Nepal
Working for AREU is not just about research, it is also about advocacy and policy engagements, which includes traveling abroad for conferences, to train ourselves...
30 Jan Reflections on Asia’s drug policies for the 2020s
"Blog posts do not reflect the views of AREU but those of their authors." 2019 saw the 1st Asia Regional Meeting of the International Society for...
31 Oct Dare to step…
Dare to step and dare to be a woman of change. This is not my idea, nor the idea of a single woman: it has...
18 Sep A woman’s life: Shefa Khana, Maaina Khana and Ashpaz Khana (Hospital, Clinic, and Kitchen)
In Afghanistan, women do not have a reasonable life and face many problems, hardships, restrictions. This is mainly true for those women who are uneducated,...
22 Aug `In commemoration of the 100 year anniversary of Afghanistan’s independence
`In commemoration of the 100 year anniversary of Afghanistan’s independence Blog posts reflect the views of the authors and not those of AREU. Long ago peace was...
20 Aug Some reflections on ‘The idea of Afghanistan’
Blog posts reflect the views of the authors and not those of AREU. What does it mean to ask ‘What is the idea of Afghanistan?’? This...