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November 5, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Sunday Times - THE first thing one notices about 16-year-old Gul Zam is her eyes, pretty and dark yet as watchful as a hunted animal's. But then the scarf covering her head shifts slightly, exposing a livid red scar on her neck. The hands that play nervously in her lap are ridged with pink burns that reach up her arms, across her chest and down her legs. Full news...
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October 31, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC NEWS - An international women's rights group says guarantees given to Afghan women after the fall of the Taliban in 2001 have not translated into real change. Womankind Worldwide says millions of Afghan women and girls continue to face systematic discrimination and violence in their households and communities. Full news...
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October 31, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PeaceReporter - Lashkargah: I don’t know their names, I don’t even know their age. They weren’t in condition to talk. They are five “presumed Taliban” arrived on Tuesday to the Emergency hospital in Lashkargah, placed in south Afghanistan. They are coming from the Kajaki area, in the eastern land of Helmand province, they travelled for hours through the dust of the desert. But to be arrived is just a great fortune. Full news...
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October 25, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: About 90 civilians were killed in NATO air strike in Panjwaye district of the southern Kandahar province, residents said on Wednesday. However, NATO-led ISAF forces claim they had killed 38 Taliban fighters in the bombing. Full news...
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October 23, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
According to Women Affairs Department ill-treatment, domestic disputes and economic problems are behind the increasing incidents of women committing suicide in the southern volatile Helmand province, also known as centre of poppy cultivation. Full news...
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October 23, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Those living in caves near Buddha statue in the central Bamyan province have not enough stuff to offer to their honourable guests at this special day of the year, contrary to people serving their guests with dry fruit and sweets in other parts of the country. Full news...
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October 23, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Times of India: Fighting between two rival factions has killed about 30 people in Shindand district of the western Herat province of Afghanistan, the provincial police said on Monday. Full news...
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October 18, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Canadian Press: NATO air strikes in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province killed nine civilians and wounded 11 others Wednesday, the provincial governor said. NATO said an operation was believed to have caused "several" civilian casualties. Full news...
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October 18, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Some 2.5 million drought-stricken Afghans across much of the country have lost their crops and are facing acute food shortages, international aid group Christian Aid warned on Wednesday in the capital, Kabul. Full news...
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October 2, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Thousands of people on Monday staged a protest demonstration against the presence of armed commanders in the northern Takhar province. Full news...
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September 27, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Human Rights Watch: Presidents Bush, Karzai, and Musharraf should act immediately to stop the increasing insecurity and attendant human rights abuses gripping southern Afghanistan and Pakistan's border areas, Human Rights Watch said today. The three leaders are meeting tonight in Washington. Full news...
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September 25, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC NEWS: Unidentified gunmen have killed a top women's affairs official in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, security officials say. Full news...
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September 20, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY: A UN-backed rights watchdog has expressed continuing concern over violence against women in Afghanistan. Full news...
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September 16, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Cursor.org: For every American who dies in either Afghanistan or Iraq, about 17 innocent Afghan or Iraqi civilians perish. The overall cumulative death count for both Americans and civilians in Iraqi is approximately ten times greater than in Afghanistan (data accessed on September 17, 2006). Full news...
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September 5, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
San Francisco Chronicle: Remember when peaceful, democratic, reconstructed Afghanistan was advertised as the exemplar for the extreme makeover of Iraq? In August 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was already proclaiming the new Afghanistan "a breathtaking accomplishment" and "a successful model of what could happen to Iraq." As everybody now knows, the model isn't working in Iraq. So we shouldn't be surprised to learn that it's not working in Afghanistan either. Full news...
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September 4, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Financial Times: Afghanistan’s opium cultivation surged by 59 per cent this year largely as a result of a Taliban-led insurgency that is pushing the southern part of the country to the verge of collapse, the United Nations drugs agency chief said at the weekend. Full news...
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September 2, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Taliban have publicly executed a man for his alleged involvement in a murder case in the Garmsir district of the southern Helmand province on Saturday. Full news...
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August 14, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Indo Asian News Service: Poverty, hardship and unemployment are driving women in Afghanistan to prostitution, with suicide the only option to escape their miseries, says a UN study. Full news...
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August 10, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
New York Times: Taliban militants killed a woman and her 13-year-old son after accusing them of spying for the government and for foreign troops in southern Afghanistan, the Afghan government said Wednesday. Full news...
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August 2, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN:An interesting result of the labour-intensive nature of opium production is its effect on the rural household economy, the division of labour and opportunities for Afghan women. In an otherwise ultra-traditional Islamic society opium offers women some degree of independence, through access to cash and status through their labours. Full news...
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July 29, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Three staffers working with a private television channel were beaten by armed men while covering a demonstration against former Mujahideen leader and current Member of Parliament Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf in Paghman district of Kabul on Saturday. Full news...
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July 17, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Human Rights Watch: A proposal to reestablish the Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Afghanistan raises serious concerns about potential abuse of the rights of women and vulnerable groups, Human Rights Watch said today. Full news...
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July 12, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA: On 1st July 2006, hundreds of people from the Paghman district of Kabul demonstrated against Rasul Sayyaf, a fundamentalist leader of the Itehad-e-Islami party and a current member of the Afghan parliament. The protesters accused Sayyaf and his armed militia of extorting their lands and imposing crimes against them. Full news...
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June 13, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: A controversial UN report that has been shelved for 18 months names and shames leading Afghan politicians and officials accused of orchestrating massacres, torture, mass rape and other war crimes. Full news...
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June 13, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Globe and Mail: As a cameraman in the Afghan parliament, Omid Yakmanish thought he had a routine job, until he was attacked and threatened with death. Full news...
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June 6, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Corruption is a growth industry for Afghanistan's police. They stand accused of extorting money from drug smugglers, gun runners, brothel owners and gamblers, in return for looking the other way. Those who refuse to pay can be arrested as part of an apparently virtuous clean-up campaign, and then released once they hand over the cash. Full news...
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June 5, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Persian (Translated by RAWA): Tens of female students of Balk University have strike and closed the entry gate of dormitory to the faces of supervisors for their objection as what they have called the 'attack of policemen to girl's dormitory'. Full news...
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May 30, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Seven aid workers lost their lives in Afghanistan on Tuesday in two separate incidents. At least four were killed in the northern Afghan province of Jawzjan when unidentified gunmen ambushed their vehicle, a government spokesman said in the capital Kabul. Full news...
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May 30, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP via Toronto Sun: Violent anti-foreigner protests raged across Afghanistan's capital yesterday after a U.S. military truck crashed into traffic, touching off the worst rioting since the Taliban's ouster. Full news...
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May 23, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CTV.ca News: Up to 80 suspected Taliban militants and an unknown number of civilians died after U.S.-led coalition forces bombed a village in southern Afghanistan. Full news...
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