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February 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters Canada: An average of two children per day were killed in Afghanistan last year, with areas of the once peaceful north now among the most dangerous, an independent Afghan rights watchdog said on Wednesday. The Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) said in a report that, of the 2,421 civilians the group registered as killed in conflict-related security incidents in 2010, some 739 were under the age of 18. Full news...
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February 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: All parties in Afghanistan should do more to protect children in armed conflict: Taliban insurgents must stop recruiting child soldiers or using them as suicide bombers, while the government must clamp down on the recruitment and/or sexual exploitation of boys by pro-government militias, the UN and human rights organizations say. Full news...
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February 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Star: Day and night, Taliban assassins on motorbikes hunt their victims, often taunting them over the telephone before gunning them down in the city’s streets. They are working their way through lists, meticulously killing off people fingered as collaborators with the Afghan government or its foreign backers. Unlike suicide bombers, who make headlines with periodic attacks that take themselves out along with their targets... Full news...
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February 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Time: Haji Abdul Hamid pulls out a satellite photograph featuring a cluster of mud-brick compounds engulfed by thick pomegranate orchards. It is labeled “Before.” “These were my houses,” says the 60-year-old Afghan farmer, outlining a row of buildings. From a bundle of papers he then produces a second image labeled “After” and nods in the direction of an American soldier standing nearby... Full news...
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February 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: Afghanistan, known as one of the leading producers of drugs and causing health problems around the world, is experiencing the same tragedy today, despite an international effort to stamp the illegal trade out. There are around one million Afghans suffering from drug addiction, of whom 13 percent are children and 20 percent are women, but only five percent of the drug users can get medical treatment... Full news...
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February 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: As the U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan enters its 10th year, it is notable that most Afghan children have never known peace. Unlike confrontations fought on distant battlefields, the inherent peril of war has found intimacy within their homes and villages. When the threat of dying is real and ever-present, it shapes your view of the world. Full news...
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February 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Press Association: A culture of drug-taking and “indiscipline” exists among Afghan nationals working with British troops in Afghanistan, a preliminary inquest hearing into the deaths of five British soldiers has been told. The UK troops were murdered by an Afghan policeman on November 3 2009. The soldiers were gunned down without warning by an officer Full news...
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February 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Radio Azadi (Translated by RAWA): Recently, bodies of some Afghan workers in Iran have been brought back to Ghor province in Afghanistan. The examination of the bodies shows that they have been cut and sewn back for unknown reasons. The relatives of the dead claim that maybe these operations have been performed to remove and sell the internal organs of the workers. Full news...
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February 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Deutsche Presse Agentur: The death toll in January in Afghanistan reached 100 civilians and 80 police, from a total of more than 300 attacks, the interior ministry announced Sunday. The figure for January represents a four per cent drop on December's figures. Most of the civilian victims were killed by roadside bombs, the favoured weapon of the Islamist militias. Full news...
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February 5, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Scotsman: A YOUNG woman stoned to death in Afghanistan’s north had run away from home because her father had sold her into marriage with a wealthy relative, The Scotsman can reveal. Sediqa, thought to be in her early twenties, fled her village with another man, when she realised the “fianc?” who bought her was old and already married. Full news...
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February 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Afghanistan’s police force is only slightly more popular than the Taliban in the insurgent heartlands of the south, according to a survey commissioned by the UN. The results of the poll, published today, portrayed a police force widely viewed by Afghans as corrupt and biased, underscoring doubts about a planned Nato handover. About half the 5,052 Afghans surveyed across all 34 provinces said they would report crime elsewhere. Full news...
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February 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Nation: More than 4,000 incidents of violence against women have happened in nine months last year in Afghanistan, a senior official in Ministry of Women’s Affairs said. Officials in ministry of women’s affairs strongly condemned stoning of a newly-wed couple in northern Kunduz province and rape incidents in western Herat province. Full news...
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February 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Last year was the worst year for civilian deaths in the war so far, and irregular armed groups backed by the U.S. and by the Afghan government are preying on the population while recruiting and abusing children. Go team. I'm almost numb from continually relaying reports like this, but every time I get an email update or a news alert from ISAF or the U.S. government, it contains claims of "progress,"... Full news...
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February 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: A young Afghan girl was abducted from her family and then raped by provincial security forces in western Herat province. Father of the raped girl told TOLOnews that around 20 days ago bodyguards of Chesht District Chief in Herat rushed into their home at night and kidnapped his daughter. Fauzia, the victim in her twenties, said she was raped by five individuals. Members of the family warned to commit suicide if the government ignored to bring those responsible to justice. Full news...
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February 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Deutsche Presse Agentur: A human rights group in Afghanistan highlighted the emergence of pro-government armed groups and their misdeeds in a report published Tuesday. “These groups have been deplored as criminal and predatory by many Afghans and been accused of severe human rights violations such as child recruitment and sexual abuse,” the report by Afghanistan Rights Monitor said. Full news...
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January 30, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
NCRI: A large number of Afghans took to the streets of Herat on Saturday to protest against the Iranian regime. The protest happened across from the regime’s consulate in Herat, with the protestors chanting, “death to Ahmadinejad” and “death to Khamenei,” referring to the mullahs’ President and Supreme Leader, respectively. Full news...
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January 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Sydney Morning Herald: An Afghan warlord accused of gross human rights violations and who was once close to Osama bin Laden has received the backing of the President, Hamid Karzai, for the important post of speaker of the new parliament. He has been accused of a string of atrocities during Afghanistan's civil war of the 1990s, in particular the killing of hundreds of Hazara civilians in Kabul in 1993. Full news...
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January 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: A former Afghan detainee testified to a Danish court Wednesday about his ordeal at the hands of US troops after Danish soldiers handed him over in 2002, describing it as a “nightmare.” “I blame Denmark a lot because it is responsible for the suffering that I went through during my four days of detention. It was a nightmare I can’t forget,” Ghousouallah Tarin testified in court on the second day of the case. Full news...
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January 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Eurasianet.org: A third of a million desperate people once lived in Maslakh, a camp of wind-blown mud brick houses erected upon a brittle lunar landscape in western Afghanistan. Ten years after the US-led invasion, the population of internally displaced waxes and wanes, subject to the whims of the country’s quarreling political factions. Full news...
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January 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: The man and woman were accused of adultery in the district of Dashte Archi in Kunduz province last August. Hundreds of people attended the stoning but no-one was charged. The area is still under Taliban control. After viewing the footage, regional police chief Gen Daoud Daoud said those responsible could be recognised. Full news...
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January 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
MediaGlobal: Although a number of laws have been put in place to improve the lives of Afghan women, there are still significant obstacles to overcome; the road to independence appears to be a long and challenging one. Many women are turning to suicide in order to escape the violence they face. Afghanistan is the only country in the world where suicide rates of women outnumber those of men. Full news...
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January 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Home Daily News: Human Rights Watch warned about the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, despite the presence of 150,000 foreign troops in the country. In its annual report for 2010, human rights groups say security has deteriorated in some areas of Afghanistan, irrespective of additional U.S. troops last year. Full news...
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January 25, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters Canada: Foreign military assertions that security in Afghanistan is improving are intended to sway Western public opinion ahead of a troop withdrawal and do not reflect the reality on the ground, a security advice group said. “Indisputable evidence” that conditions are deteriorating included a two-thirds rise in insurgent attacks in 2010 compared with the previous year... Full news...
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January 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Vancouver Sun: Despite all the evidence that continuing to stay in this benighted country is worse than pointless, despite the fact that the majority of Canadians want to get out sooner rather than later and despite the fact that even Stephen Harper recognizes that the Karzai regime is one of the most repugnant and corrupt Canadians have ever been asked to support we are unable as a nation to extricate ourselves from this deadly mess. Full news...
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January 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: The number of civilian casualties has been soaring in the militancy-plagued Afghanistan as Interior Ministry had registered 38 civilian fatalities in the past one week, spokesman for the ministry Zamarai Bashari said Sunday. “In the past one week a total of 38 civilians had been killed across the country that indicates 31 percent rise in compare with the previous week,” Bashari told a weekly press briefing here. Full news...
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January 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
WSWS: The ACLU states that 25-30 of the 190 deaths that occurred under custody of the U.S. government at Guantanamo Bay were “unjustifiable homicides”. In our view, every single one of them qualify for this charge because their imprisonment and the war that brought them there was unjustified from the very beginning. - LMB Full news...
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January 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A woman lost her life when a vehicle of international forces overran her in western Herat province, an official said on Saturday. The accident happened in Guzara district at 8pm when the woman crossing the road was hit by a vehicle of NATO-led forces, police spokesman, Col. Noor Khan Nekzad, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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January 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: New documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union show “unjustified homicide” of detainees and concerns about the condition of confinement in U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, according to the ACLU. Thousands of documents detailing the deaths of 190 U.S. detainees were released by the ACLU on Friday. Full news...
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January 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: The Obama administration’s effort to persist in carrying out a deadly war in Afghanistan outside the public’s eye has been succeeding. Three means are employed: tight control over news flowing out of Afghanistan; vastly greater reliance upon secretive night raids by U.S. Special Forces; and a stepped-up use of private contractors/mercenaries on the ground in Afghanistan. Full news...
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January 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Pro-government militias in parts of Afghanistan are believed to be recruiting underage boys and sometimes sexually abusing them in an environment of criminal impunity, local people and human rights organizations say. In a bid to counter the intensifying insurgency, the Afghan government and US/NATO forces have been setting up controversial community-based militias, such as the Afghan Local Police, in insecure provinces. Full news...
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