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It’s been a hopeful start to International Women’s Day for more than 300 refugees arriving in Calgary from Afghanistan. They are now among the 40,000 refugees coming to Canada to seek safety following the Taliban takeover in 2021. Sarah Offin was there for their arrival.

Protests were held in Calgary and other cities around the world on Sunday demanding action against the Taliban. Demonstrators claim that Hazara people have been victims of genocidal action since the Taliban assumed control in 2021 and has become worse this month with the alleged abduction of women and girls. Carolyn Kury de Castillo has...

This week marks one year since the Taliban banned women in Afghanistan from attending post-secondary schools. It’s part of a crackdown on women and girls’ rights, where they are not allowed to learn, work or even go to beauty salons. To escape all of this, a growing number of female Afghan students are seeking scholarships...

A North Shore fundraiser hopes to raise thousands for families in need. A refugee family fleeing from the Taliban has arrived in B.C.

In tonight’s top story: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is dismissing reports that the U.S. has convinced Israel to not expand its military offensive in Gaza. “Israel is a sovereign state,” Netanyahu told his cabinet on Sunday, adding that “Our decisions are not dictated by external pressures.” Also, in the Middle East, the Taliban marks...

More than one million Afghan refugees fled to Pakistan after the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan in 2021. Now all these people face deportation as part of Pakistan’s new anti-migrant crackdown. As Touria Izri reports, some of them are waiting for Canada to process their refugee applications, as pressure mounts on the Immigration, Refugees and...

The Taliban retook control of Afghanistan in August 2021, claiming women would “be very active in our society.” Instead, women and girls there just keep losing their rights and freedoms, just as critics predicted. Shogofa Danish looks at what life is like for females in Afghanistan, as the Taliban works to erase them from public...

This week, Global News is highlighting stories of Afghans struggling to survive and start over. Shogofa Danish begins our series on life under the Taliban.

Two years after the Taliban took over Afghanistan again, the country’s economy has been pushed to the brink of collapse, with most of Afghanistan’s population now living in poverty. Shogofa Danish looks at the struggle to survive under Taliban rule.

In Ottawa, a crowd marched on Parliament Hill for the rights of people in Afghanistan. This week marks two years since Kabul’s violent fall to Taliban forces. That takeover has proved particularly frustrating for women and girls. As Touria Izri reports, protesters are calling for action.

Evacuations are becoming more difficult in the Northwest Territories as more than 200 wildfires burn. The only ways to escape, the urgent plea to residents choosing to stay behind, how the military is being brought in to help, and what’s providing hope. Don Prestage, a Canadian man who has called Hawaii home for a decade,...

As the historic and fire-ravaged town of Lahaina faces a very long road to recovery, volunteers are delivering food and hope to people in need. Neetu Garcha reports from Maui on the group’s mission, the heartbreak among residents, the challenges firefighters reportedly faced, and the potential class-action lawsuit against Hawaiian Electric, the power company. Back...

Beyond the painful and tragic loss of life in Maui’s wildfires — the deadliest in the state’s history — sacred sites were also engulfed by the blaze, a major blow to Hawaiian culture and history. Global’s Neetu Garcha is in Maui with more on those concerns. In Ottawa, a crowd marched on Parliament Hill for...

WARNING: Video contains disturbing images not suitable for all viewers. Discretion is advised. At least 54 people were killed when an alleged suicide bomber detonated their device at a political rally in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, police said. An Afghan branch of Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for the bombing.

It’s been almost two years since the Taliban re-took control of Afghanistan, reviving their relentless oppression on the rights and freedoms of women and girls. The UN calls it gender apartheid and says Afghanistan is the most repressive country in the world for women. And it seems that the Taliban isn’t done yet. Shogofa Danish...

Omer Malikyar fled Afghanistan under the threat of the Taliban as a teenager. After a difficult journey to asylum, Malikyar put all his energy into his education and community. He is now mentoring young refugees as they navigate their new homes. Susan Hay has the story.

Afghanistan’s Taliban administration ordered beauty salons to close within a month on Tuesday, according to its morality ministry. The order is the latest shrinking of access to public places for Afghan women, following 2021’s closure of almost all girls’ high schools and the banning of women from university.

The Canadian government is concerned about the fate of some of the thousands of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan, who escaped out of fear of arrest or even death at the hands of the Taliban who now rule Afghanistan. But now, Pakistani authorities are questioning their right to be in the country, leading Afghan nationals...

Many may have learned about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan through headlines in 2021 of the Taliban taking over. But those familiar with the issue, and those who are from there, say the crisis has been ongoing for decades… disproportionately affecting women and girls. But in our region, an annual effort is wrapped in...

Women and girls in Afghanistan have been banned from going to school, just one of the many rights taken away by the Taliban. Global’s Touria Izri and Shogofa Danish explain how Canadian aid agencies are working to reach and help female Afghan students.