Five years before the 2015 deadline for achieving the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the picture on progress is mixed. Persisting challenges include dysfunctional health systems, gaps in reliable morbidity and mortality data, uneven progress between goals and growing inequity between subpopulations. Jan Vandemoortele, one of the architects of the MDGs, emphasizes that the ...

Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Lessons From Afghanistan’ This aims provide an in-depth analysis of deeper reasons for ongoing conflict in Afghanistan going back Soviet invasion December 1979 through final western withdrawal August 2021. Multidisciplinary approach and drawing upon analysts from a variety different academic disciplines, it explains why Taliban finally triumphed, what this mea...

Afghanistan is confronting the Covid-19 pandemic and its socioeconomic fallout amid rising insecurity. Supported by donors, authorities boosted health social spending to cushion pandemic’s impact on vulnerable. Policy measures kept output contraction 2 percent in 2020, but poverty rose fiscal deficit widened. Political uncertainty has risen as peace talks between government Taliban stalled U.S....

After the collapse of Soviet Union and end Cold War, new challenges threats a regional nature emerged. The former countries decided to sign an agreement on collective security against backdrop emerging from various terrorist groups seizure power by Taliban in Afghanistan. This article describes causes history emergence Collective Security Treaty its transformation into entire organization. pape...

The article analyzes the attitude of Tajikistan to humanitarian situation in Afghanistan and security problems this country after Taliban* came power August 2021. Unlike many states region, which were not particularly worried about transition under control a terrorist organization, event negative reaction Tajik society. It perceived threat Tajiks as itself, its language, culture, values and, ge...

Malala Yousafzai (1997-) became an international icon after Pakistan-based Tehrik-i-Taliban militants attacked her on way to school October 9, 2012. In the following days, global media gave extensive coverage attack from multiple narrative positions. This article argues that traveling of as image a Muslim girl's right education was instru-mentalized in context Kerala, South India, deny Muslims ...