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March 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Afghanistan’s president endorsed a “code of conduct” issued by an influential council of clerics which activists say represents a giant step backward for women’s rights in the country. President Hamid Karzai’s remarks backing the Ulema Council’s document, which allows husbands to beat wives under certain circumstances and encourages segregation of the sexes, is seen as reaching out to insurgents like the Taliban. Full news...
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March 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: At least 42 people have been killed and many more are missing in an avalanche in Afghanistan’s north-eastern Badakhshan province. The provincial governor’s office said that one village near the Tajikistan border had been completely swept away. The number of people killed in the village in Shekay district is expected to rise, a spokesman for the governor told the BBC. Full news...
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March 5, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Women are subordinate to men, should not mix in work or education and must always have a male guardian when they travel, according to new guidelines from Afghanistan's top clerics which critics say are dangerously reminiscent of the Taliban era. The edicts appeared in a statement that also encouraged insurgents to join peace talks... Full news...
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March 4, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Children in Afghanistan suffer one of the highest levels of chronic malnutrition in the world, a report said Monday, despite billions of dollars in aid that have poured into the war-torn country. More than half of Afghan children under the age of five are chronically malnourished, according to the joint report by the World Bank and the government. Full news...
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March 1, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A 12-year-old girl on Thursday complained she had been sent to jail after being raped by her neighbour in the Shahr-i-Safa district of southern Zabul province. But prosecutors said that the girl and her two brothers were taken into custody after the alleged rapist, 21 years old, was publicly sodomised. Full news...
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