Some videos, news articles, and a book pertaining to Courageous Rescue from Afghanistan

Note – some of these links have paywalls

VIDEOS

An Unfinished Journey – 2024, 1:15, HitPlay Productions, on CBC Gem.  Forced to flee their country after the Taliban takeover, four Afghan women leaders struggle to keep the world’s attention on the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan.  CBC Gem https://gem.cbc.ca/an-unfinished-journey, or trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPjvgn4BrmA

Sharp Edge of Peace – 2024, 1:35, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung.  A feature-length documentary that follows the only women on the Afghan government negotiating team as they navigate the hard road to peace and broker a shared political structure with the Taliban.  Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyKx9iVVJM4

Bread and Roses – 2023, 1:30. on Apple TV.  In the shadow of Kabul’s fall, three women fight to reclaim their lives.  Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEiywFC3tqk

Symphony of Courage – 2022, 29:43, Voice of America.  The story of the rescue of Afghanistan's most important music school.  After music was forbidden by the Taliban, the music school's teachers, administrators, and students were in danger.  Cellist Yo-yo Ma heard of their plight and helped to arrange their escape to Portugal.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LDIoaSCQDo

Afghanistan Undercover – 2022, 0:54, PBS Frontline.  An undercover investigation into the Taliban’s crackdown on women in Afghanistan.  Frontline correspondent Ramita Navai finds women who are being punished by the regime and confronts Taliban officials.  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/afghanistan-undercover/

Escape from Kabul – 2022, 1:13, HBO Docs, on HBO Max or Crave.  Documentary featuring never-before-seen footage and exclusive interviews from Afghan citizens, U.S. Marines, and the Taliban during the 2021 withdrawal,  Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evUsiGzX8Oo

Ghosts of Afghanistan – 2021, 1:29, Graeme Smith, TVO Docs.  As the Taliban seize control of Afghanistan and the "forever war" ends in chaos and tragedy, Canadian war correspondent Graeme Smith offers a first-hand account of NATO's failed attempt to bring democracy and women's rights and freedoms to the country.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbEKeGIpwyA

NEWS ARTICLES

Taliban say they will close all national, foreign NGOs in Afghanistan employing women – The Associated Press/The Globe and Mail, 2024-12-30.  https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-taliban-say-they-will-close-all-national-foreign-ngos-in-afghanistan/

The incredible story of Afghanistan’s exiled women’s cricket team – The Taliban would kill them for daring to play “the gentlemen’s game”.  The Economist, 2024-12-19.  This article appeared in the Christmas Specials section of the print edition under the headline “Batswomen v bigots”.  https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2024/12/19/the-incredible-story-of-afghanistans-exiled-womens-cricket-team

Malala Yousafzai: I never imagined women’s rights would be lost so easily – Amber Sandhu & Kulsum Hafeji, BBC Newsbeat, 2024-11-17.  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86q5yqz0q2o

Afghan women find ways to speak up under new Taliban laws designed to silence them, exiled MP says – Wendy Kaur, Special to The Globe and Mail, 2024-11-12.  https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-afghan-women-still-resisting-taliban/

Operation Abraham’s mission of mercy – After the Taliban takeover of Kabul, many Afghans were left vulnerable to reprisals by the insurgents.  Here is the story of how volunteers, an embassy in Russia, and smuggled passports got them out.  Janice Dickson, The Globe and Mail, 2024-10-26.  https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-operation-abraham-taliban-afghanistan/

Afghan women decry ‘complete abolishment’ from society after Taliban bars them from nursing, midwifery training – Janice Dickson, International Affairs Reporter, The Globe & Mail, 2024-10-12.  https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-afghan-women-decry-complete-abolishment-from-society-after-taliban/

Former Afghan policewomen live in fear of Taliban as Canada urged to resettle them – Janice Dickson, International Affairs Reporter, The Globe & Mail, 2024-10-10.  https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-former-afghan-policewomen-live-in-fear-of-taliban-as-canada-urged-to/

Inside the secret mission to bring Afghanistan’s last female politicians to Canada – Melissa Mancini, CBC News, 2024-10-03.  https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/afghan-female-politcians-come-to-canada-1.7340993

‘Someone will kill me’: Former Afghan MP fears her fate if she can’t come to Canada – After an assassination, pressure mounts to bring 8 female ex-MPs to Canada

Catherine Cullen, CBC News, 2023-01-21.  https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/afghan-women-assassination-taliban-nabizada-1.6721619

One Year After Leaving Afghanistan, Fawzia Koofi Is Determined To Go Back – Forbes, 2022-09-01.  https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniefillion/2022/09/01/one-year-after-leaving-afghanistan-fawzia-koofi-is-determined-to-go-back/

It’s time for our government to stop outsourcing the protection of Afghans at risk – Corey Levine, CBC Opinion, 2021-11-04.  Corey Levine is a human rights and peacebuilding consultant, researcher and writer, who has been working in war zones for more than 20 years.  She has been engaged with Afghanistan since March 2002 and returned from her latest posting there at the end of June.  https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-afghanistan-refugees-government-protection-1.6235479

BOOK

Twenty Years: Hope, War, and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation – by Sune Engel Rasmussen.  Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2024-08-06).  The author follows the lives of several Afghan citizens, from various backgrounds, as they lived through the dramatic years between 2000 and the present.