US cancels talks with Taliban over U-turn on girls’ education
Kabul, Afghanistan/Washington DC, US Reuters The United States abruptly cancelled meetings with the Taliban in Doha that were set to address key economic issues, officials said on Friday, after Afghanistan’s Islamist rulers reversed a decision to allow all girls to return to high school classes. The cancellation of talks was the first concrete sign that […]
Essay: Five ways coronavirus lockdowns increase inequality
In an article first published on The Conversation, UK social scientist ISAAC T TABNER, writing in the UK context, looks at how coronavirus outbreak could result in greater inequality…