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September 21, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: NATO warplanes killed six Afghan civilians, most of them women and children, in an air strike during a battle with Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, a district governor told AFP Friday. Full news...
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September 17, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Around 100 angry Afghan Sikhs carried a coffin to the United Nations headquarters in Kabul on Monday, accusing Muslims of stopping them cremating the dead man. Full news...
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September 13, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Institute for War & Peace Reporting: While attention focuses on fighting in southern Afghanistan, there are parts of the north where the law is made not by Kabul, but by militia commanders who use violence and intimidation to maintain their hold over the civilian population. Full news...
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September 13, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PressGazette.co.uk: Award-winning journalist Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy talks to Colin Crummy about her latest film charting the experiences of women in AfghanistanSix years after Hardcash Productions' Beneath The Veil, which examined the plight of women in Afghanistan, broadcast journalist Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy returned to the country. The resulting film, Afghan?istan – Lifting The Veil, offers a bleak insight into life in the country post-Taliban rule, as Obaid Chinoy meets women forced into marriage and living in poverty, but desperate to escape. Full news...
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September 2, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Sunday voiced concern over the predicament of women prisoners in Afghanistan. Dr. Shukria Nuri, head of the UNODC, told a day-long conference on the issue that women were held in Afghan jails in inappropriate conditions that were contrary to the concept of human rights and other international norms. Full news...
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August 21, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
EurasiaNet: Two men from one family were dragged from their home in Paktia Province on August 19 and beheaded, Pajhwak Afghan News reported. The attack occurred around midnight in the village of Abdal in Zurmat district, according to Din Mohammad Darwesh, a spokesman for the provincial governor. Full news...
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August 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: A number of people in Takhar refer to their province as ‘kingdom of bandits' and blame some of the local commanders of intervening in the government affairs, usurpation of peoples' land and properties, violence against women and unlawful conducts. But the commanders say such claims are baseless. Full news...
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August 11, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
OhmyNews: Decades of civil and social upheaval has intensified traditional social pressures on Afghan women who were already suffering at the hands of poverty and decadent social traditions. All this was coupled by the economic dislocation of a large section of Afghanistan society. In such a situation, Afghan women found an easy escape in suicides. The trend of suicide, which started in the early years of this decade, is now practiced by desperate Afghan women throughout most parts of Afghanistan. Full news...
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August 5, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: In the last one-month, cases of self-immolation have considerably increased in Balkh province and four women have committed self-immolation. Full news...
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August 5, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: More than 100 people, many of them widows, called for international help in identifying remains found in the latest mass grave to be uncovered in Afghanistan. Full news...
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August 1, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Yemen Observer: "The conditions of my imprisonment were those of a small-scale Guantanamo," said Kamran Mir Hazar, "with four persons crammed into a dark 2-by-3 meter cell, without any contact to the outside world, and no access to a lawyer." The 31-year-old journalist and author was recently arrested on the street by agents of the Afghan secret police. Full news...
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August 1, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Taliban have executed the four judges they had kidnapped from Andar district of Ghazni last week. Their bodies were retrieved by police in the district this morning, officials told Pajhwok Afghan News on Wednesday. The slain also included a senior official of the Paktika courts. Full news...
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July 29, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: 'The last day she came to the school, instead of answering the questions, in her Chemistry exam paper she wrote that she would never come to school again', says Frohar about the late Farida. A student of class tenth at Khadijatulkobra high school, located in the center of Kundoz province, Frohar was class-fellow and best friend of 18 year old Farida who has committed suicide on July 11, 2007. Full news...
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July 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CTV.ca News: A growing number of Afghan women are attempting to escape a life of abuse by setting themselves on fire, a study by a human rights group has found. Full news...
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July 5, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: An underground prison containing hundreds of bodies has been discovered in Afghanistan. The prison, a former military barracks on the outskirts of the capital, Kabul, dates from the Soviet occupation of the 1980s, officials say. Full news...
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June 26, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Farida Nekzad, editor of Afghanistan's independent news agency Pajhwok, receives death threats on her cell phone during the funeral of a fellow female journalist, Zakia Zaki, who was slain by gunmen earlier in the month. Full news...
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June 17, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
US State Department Trafficking in Persons Report: Afghanistan is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and involuntary servitude. Afghan children are trafficked internally and to Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Zimbabwe for commercial sexual exploitation, forced marriage to settle debts or disputes, forced begging, debt bondage, service as child soldiers, or other forms of involuntary servitude. Full news...
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June 12, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Daily Mail: Britain and America have been accused of failing to do enough to protect civilians in war-torn Afghanistan. The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that civilians were suffering unbearably as violence has escalated in the last year. Full news...
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June 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: The queues of refugees start to pour over the border from first thing in the morning - as they have been doing for the last month. Ninety thousand people have so far been forcibly returned to Afghanistan from Iran since 21 April, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Full news...
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May 30, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
World Socialist Web Site: The US-backed political elite in Kabul have recently made a series of judicial rulings with grave implications for democratic rights that has received little comment in the international media. Full news...
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May 17, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: "My father and mother had gone to an invitation; police of Iran came to our house and deported us through the way of Nimrooz." These are the sad words of Noorbashee, 9, that according to her claim she has been expelled from Iran along with her 3 years old sister, now they are living with difficult situation in a camp in the frontier region of Nimrooz Province that doesn't any thing except for burning desert and sand storms. Full news...
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May 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Zee News: Air strikes called in by US special forces’ soldiers fighting with insurgents in southern Afghanistan killed at least 21 civilians, officials said today. One coalition soldier was also killed. Full news...
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April 29, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Los Angeles Times: If there's one thing Abdul Rasul Sayyaf knows, it's how to guard an exposed flank.As one of many warlords battling for control of Kabul in the early 1990s, Sayyaf ordered his fighters to protect their positions and press for advantage — which they did by shelling civilian neighborhoods and slaughtering members of Afghanistan's oppressed ethnic Hazara minority, human rights groups say. Full news...
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April 25, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
OhmyNews: In an apparent move to appease former strongmen and Jihadi commanders, the Afghan government has decided to award them special medals on April 28, the day when mujahideen or holy warriors overthrew the Russian-backed regime in Afghanistan in 1992. Full news...
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April 21, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Afghanistan's Taliban movement has used a 12-year-old boy to execute a man accused of helping U.S. forces hunt down and kill one of its top commanders in December, Al Arabiya television reported on Saturday. Full news...
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April 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: A man allegedly slaughtered his 14-year-old wife in Mohammad Agha district of the central Logar province last night, police said. Full news...
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April 15, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: US marines violated international humanitarian law by using excessive violence in reaction to a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan, a report says. Full news...
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April 13, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Sunday Times: The bodies of nearly 400 Afghan civilians killed during the communist regime that ended in 1992 have been found in a mass grave in northeastern Afghanistan, officials said. Full news...
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April 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Roadside bombs in southern Afghanistan on Sunday left seven NATO soldiers dead, the alliance said, as its forces continued an anti-Taliban offensive in the world's most fertile opium-producing region. It appeared to be the biggest combat loss for foreign troops in Afghanistan since 2005. Full news...
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April 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: A mass grave with over 50 bodies was unearthed in the northern province of Badakhshan, officials said on Saturday. Full news...
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