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  • Afghan children raped with 'impunity,' U.N. official says
    August 7, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan children raped with 'impunity,' U.N. official says
    CNN: The young Afghan girl sits in the center of the room, weeping. Using her hand and her blue scarf to hide her face, she recounts how she was brutally raped by five gunmen. The girl's tragic case is one of many in war-torn Afghanistan, activists say. "This is just an example among thousands of other cases," Shaima, a member of RAWA, tells CNN. "The rest go unnoticed by the media."      Full news...


  • AIDS adds sting to Afghanistan misery
    August 5, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    AIDS adds sting to Afghanistan misery
    The Chicago Tribune: In a country plagued by war and Islamic militants, by one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world, by malnutrition and starvation and even by locusts, AIDS has arrived. So far the Afghan government has officially identified only 435 cases of HIV — a small number, considering how many there are in neighboring countries—but international and Afghan health experts say there are likely thousands in Afghanistan.      Full news...

  • Desperate Afghan women choose death by fire
    August 4, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Desperate Afghan women choose death by fire
    The Financial Times: The hospital that Amina had been checked into a few days before is, by Afghan standards, one of the best in the country, built with international money, staffed by foreign- trained doctors and kitted out with modern equipment. She could not hope for better treatment.      Full news...

  • Sex attacks on Afghan children continue to rise, rights group says
    August 4, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Sex attacks on Afghan children continue to rise, rights group says
    Quqnoos: An Afghan human rights organisation has said the increase in the number of child rapes may drag the country into anarchy. Child rapes have risen sharply in recent years, according to Afghanistan’s Human Rights Organisation (AHRO), which claims most of the sexual assaults are carried out by government officials and other powerful men.      Full news...

  • Afghan mothers keep their kids with them in prison
    August 4, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan mothers keep their kids with them in prison
    AP: Wahid is one of 226 young children who live in Afghanistan's prisons, with mothers who are among the country's 304 incarcerated women. These children have committed no crime. But their mothers have decided prison is the best option for them in a poor, war-torn country where a safe, comfortable home is a rarity.      Full news...


  • Naseer Fayyaz: Me and my family are in danger
    August 3, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Naseer Fayyaz: Me and my family are in danger
    After my detention and release from the intelligence agency, I am feeling very scared. Only last night when I was reading Dari bulletin on our ATN channel, one of my colleagues in the station received a call from my brother at home informing that he has been witnessing some suspicious movements around my house. Over telephone he said that several armed persons with big turbans and suspected attire were moving around my residence. He told me not to go home because it could be threat to my life. And right from that time I have not visited my house; I am at a safer place provided by my employer ATN.      Full news...


  • Aid groups say Afghan violence worst since 2001
    August 1, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Aid groups say Afghan violence worst since 2001
    EurasiaNet: An umbrella group representing some 100 aid groups and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) has said that violence is at its worst level since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 and that it is concerned over the increasing number of civilian casualties and attacks on aid workers in recent months.      Full news...

  • An Interview with Sonali Kolhatkar: What's Going on in Afghanistan
    July 31, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    An Interview with Sonali Kolhatkar: What's Going on in Afghanistan
    CounterPunch: I’m really not sure what Bush, Obama, and McCain mean when they say they want to win in Afghanistan. And, I'm not sure they know either. It's probably just a public-relations gimmick to sound “tough on terror.” But, judging from what we've seen, they seem to think that “winning” means killing every last “terrorist” in Afghanistan. That sort of thinking is based on false assumptions and it's an unattainable goal.      Full news...



  • RSF and CPJ call for the release of Naseer Fayyaz
    July 29, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    RSF and CPJ call for the release of Naseer Fayyaz
    “Reporters Without Borders calls for the release of Mohammed Naseer Fayyaz, the host of the programme Haqeeqat (The Truth) on privately-owned Ariana TV, who was arrested yesterday by members of the Directorate for National Security (DNS) at the government's behest." "The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by reports that Afghan television reporter Mohammad Naseer Fayyaz was detained one day after his television station aired a documentary that was critical of some cabinet members and their ministries.”      Full news...



  • Returning Afghans survive in tent camps
    July 27, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Returning Afghans survive in tent camps
    SF Chronicle: Along a parched sandlot where sporadic bursts of wind kick up spinning clouds of blinding dust, Abdul Quiam wakes from an afternoon slumber. A tent constructed of bamboo poles and threadbare blankets is the weathered 75-year-old man's only defense from a scorching midday sun.      Full news...


  • Obama, the prince of bait-and-switch
    July 24, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Obama, the prince of bait-and-switch
    New Statesman: Slaughters on this scale are common, and mostly unknown to the British public. I interviewed a woman who had lost eight members of her family, including six children. A 500lb US Mk82 bomb was dropped on her mud, stone and straw house. There was no "enemy" nearby. I interviewed a headmaster whose house disappeared in a fireball caused by another "precision" bomb.      Full news...

  • The Forgotten War: Sonali Kolhatkar on Why Afghanistan is “Just as Bad as Iraq”
    July 24, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    The Forgotten War: Sonali Kolhatkar on Why Afghanistan is “Just as Bad as Iraq”
    Democracy Now: Coming on the heels of Barack Obama’s highly publicized visit to Afghanistan—what he calls a central front in the so-called war on terror—we play an address by Pacifica radio host Sonali Kolhatkar, one of this country’s leading voices against the occupation of Afghanistan and co-author of the book Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords and the Propaganda of Silence.      Full news...



  • Inside a living hell - Afghanistan
    July 20, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Inside a living hell - Afghanistan
    The Hindu: Each year since the parliamentary elections of 2005, Afghanistan has seen a spiralling toll of human lives. Initially, the resurgent Taliban burst out once again in the southern provinces, where they had their stronghold, engaging the international forces in conventional warfare. The escalated fighting was explained away by the military forces who said they were going into “new” areas, an admission that the initial operations against the Taliban in 2001 had a very limited mandate.      Full news...

  • Childhood ends at 11 for some Afghan girls; for others, an education begins
    July 18, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Childhood ends at 11 for some Afghan girls; for others, an education begins
    The Canadian Press: Girls as young as 11 are considered just old enough for a husband. Their parents collect lucrative $10,000 dowries from wealthy grooms-to-be, and these pre-teens are sent off to become housewives and start raising families. Last year 60 Kandahar girls sought to escape their fate through suicide, provincial officials say. Like Sher, many wound up as hospital burn victims after dousing themselves with gasoline and setting themselves ablaze.      Full news...




  • The Massacre at Aranas on the Waygal River, Nuristan Province
    July 16, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    The Massacre at Aranas on the Waygal River, Nuristan Province
    The Afghan Victim Memorial: They were killed or wounded on Friday, July 4, 2008, on a road near Aranas village on the Waygal River in the district of Waigal (Waygal), Nuristan Province. The Province’s Governor himself, Tamim Nuristani, told various media including the AFP that 16 civilians were killed in an air strike as they were leaving an area after being told by security forces a military operation was about to occur. District governor Zia-ul-Rehman said that 22 civilians had died in the strike.      Full news...

  • Taliban execute two Afghan women
    July 14, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Taliban execute two Afghan women
    World News Australia: A spokesman for Ghazni's governor, said the women, dressed in blue burqas, were shot and killed on Saturday just outside Ghazni city in central Afghanistan. He called the two "innocent local people." Taliban fighters told AP Television News the two were executed for allegedly running a prostitution ring catering to US soldiers and other foreign contractors at a US base in Ghazni city.      Full news...



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