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December 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Afghanistan’s female cops have been heralded as the face of women’s rights at work in the country. However, they say they regularly experience sexual harassment and discrimination at the hands of their male counterparts. In interviews with 12 policewoman, Reuters uncovered repeated incidents of abuse and harassment by the male officers, who see them as immoral for accepting work as police. Full news...
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December 19, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A 14-year-old girl was killed in an overnight gun attack in the Imam Sahib district of northern Kunduz province, an official said on Wednesday. Bibi Gul was shot dead by a group of gunmen who wanted to enter the house of a farmer, Abdul Zamim, police spokesman, Syed Sarwar Hussaini, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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December 17, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Ten young girls were killed when a bomb exploded as they were gathering firewood outside their village in eastern Afghanistan on Monday morning, an official said. It was not clear what triggered the explosion outside Dawlatzai village in Nangarhar province’s Chaperhar district, said Mohammad Seddiq, the government administrator for the district. He spoke to The Associated Press by phone from the site of the blast. Full news...
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December 16, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RIA Novosti: Civilian casualties in Afghanistan increased by 28 percent between August 1 and October 31 this year, compared to the same period of last year, a recent United Nations report said. United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released a new report on Friday saying that at least 967 civilians were killed and 1,590 others were injured within the third quarter of the year. Full news...
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December 10, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Persian (Translated by RAWA): A number of human rights activists organized a demonstration on the International Human Rights Day, and demanded the prosecution of those who according to them, have committed “war crimes”. Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948, this day is celebrated every year. Full news...
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December 9, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Hundreds of angry protesters attacked the Iranian consulate in western Herat province on Sunday over the execution of Afghan nationals in Iran, local officials said. A peaceful demonstration began around 11:00AM but it turned violent with protesters attacking the Iranian consulate building and inflicting some damage, provincial security police chief of Herat Abdul Hamid Hamidi told TOLOnews. Full news...
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December 8, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: This is a story of an Afghan wedding gone badly wrong. Or perhaps of “an operation in search of an insurgent leader,” as the official report later said. It is hard to tell which. Probably both. Meet Abdulrashid, a man with no last name, no profession, no literacy skills and no exact date of birth. He might be in his 30s. I first encounter him as I am interviewing internally displaced people Full news...
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December 7, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Mail Online: A student and polio volunteer has been shot dead by armed men in a rural Afghan village. The brutal killing has raised questions about women’s safety in the region, with reports suggesting that females are too scared to attend school or work following the murder. The girl, known only as Anisa, was shot outside her home in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province, having survived an attack only a day before. Full news...
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December 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Ten-year-old Noria is unable to go to school any more because she is so scared of the effects of war. “We are scared – there’s war here and rockets being fired. I used to go to school but now I can’t,” she said. “When night comes, my little sister and I have nightmares. One day a rocket landed close to our school, and we were saved only by God’s mercy.” Full news...
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December 5, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: A 12-year-old boy and three teenagers are alleged to have been shot dead as they were drinking tea during a counter-insurgency operation in Afghanistan. Witnesses claim the operation was lead by British soldiers, with defence secretary Philip Hammond now being asked to launch an investigation. Lawyers for the victims’ family claim the four boys appeared to have been “deliberately targeted at close range”, according to the Guardian newspaper. Full news...
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December 5, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Agencies: Pakistan, Afghanistan and India were the worst-affected victims of terrorism during 2011, while terrorist strikes increased four times since the start of Iraq war in 2003, according to a new global study. The inaugural Global Terrorism Index (GTI) said that Pakistan, India and Afghanistan accounted for 12 percent, 11 percent and 10 percent of global terrorist incidents from 2002 to 2009. Full news...
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December 2, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents in the central Daikundi accused some members of parliament in the province of supporting illegal armed groups who are disturbing peace in their area. About 20 fighters under commander Mohammad Fairoz Rasuli in Sang Takh district robbed the people and took away 350 kg of wheat from the area, a tribal elder in Daikundi said on condition of anonymity. Full news...
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December 2, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Los Angeles Times: Winter is descending on the Shakur clan. In the pale gray twilight of late autumn, a sharp wind slaps at the scraps of plastic that Abdel Shakur, the clan patriarch, has installed on his mud hut walls in a futile attempt at insulation. The thin tarpaulins that serve as a roof are held fast by round patties of cow dung and worn auto tires. Full news...
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December 1, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Uzbek Service: In many areas of Afghanistan it is the warlords who hold sway - not the central government or the Taliban. They are able to exploit villagers with impunity using the threat, or the reality, of violence. In rural Takhar province, in the remote north-east of Afghanistan, time seems to have stopped in the 19th Century - bumpy roads, mud-built houses, lawless villages and no sign of the Kabul government. Full news...
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November 30, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
UN News: A senior United Nations official today called on the international community to step up its humanitarian support for Afghanistan to sustain the progress made so far in the country where thousands have suffered through 34 years of conflict and poverty. “It is clear that the Government is making progress; the candid and professional approach being taken is certainly impressive, but given the scale of the challenge, international funding support will also be key to success,” said... Full news...
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November 29, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: The girl, Geesa, was attacked earlier this week by two men from the spurned family as she went to collect water from a stream in her village in northern Afghanistan. The attack came after her father, Mohammad Rahim, had turned down a marriage offer for the girl, saying she was too young to be engaged. Full news...
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November 29, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: Just before she leapt from her roof into the streets of Kabul, Farima thought of the wedding that would never happen and the man she would never marry. Her fiance would be pleased to see her die, she later recalled thinking. It would offer relief to them both. Farima, 17, had resisted her engagement to Zabiullah since it was ordained by her grandfather when she was 9. Full news...
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November 26, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ANI: The Afghan government should not grant Taliban representatives amnesty from prosecution for serious crimes as part of talks with the insurgent group, Human Rights Watch has said. “Future government talks with the Taliban should not hinge upon denying justice to victims of war crimes and other abuses. Afghanistan’s civilians should not be forced to choose between justice and peace,” The News quoted Brad Adams, HRW Asia director, as saying. Full news...
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November 26, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
By RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal: At least 19 people have been injured in a bomb attack in the eastern Afghan city of Khost. Local officials say the bomb was planted on a bicycle and detonated early on November 26 in a market. Full news...
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November 26, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Killid Group: On Oct 12, three people were arrested in the murder of a woman, Mah Gul, at her home in Shalbafan Village, Injil district, Herat. The woman’s head had been cut off. The police arrested her husband, mother- and father-in-law and a person who assisted in the crime. The dead woman’s brother,who took her body to the office of the Women’s Affairs Department in Herat City, says she was killed by her husband and his family. Full news...
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November 25, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Scotland on Sunday: Waheeda cannot now ?explain how she reached the ?final, terrible decision to set herself alight. She does remember the months of beatings and her brothers-in-laws’ abuse. But the moments before she poured oil over her legs outside the room where her in-laws were and ignited her clothes with a match are now clouded by 40 days of pain. Full news...
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November 25, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Afghanistan has closed down three major public universities in the capital Kabul for more than a week after sectarian clashes left one student dead and nearly 30 others wounded, an official said Sunday. The clashes erupted on Saturday after a ritual marking the Shiite Muslim festival of Ashura was interrupted by Sunni students. Full news...
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November 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: A suicide attacker detonated a car laden with explosives Friday in eastern Afghanistan, killing two civilians and wounding about 60 others, officials said. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the bombing, saying in a statement that the attack was in response to the recent execution of four Taliban detainees at the Afghan government’s main detention center in Kabul. Full news...
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November 22, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Killid Group: “I don’t know what happiness is,” says Qalam Gul who lost both legs and one hand in the civil war. From the remote area of Rod Khana in Nangarhar, Gul remembers the exact moment shrapnel changed his life forever. “It was 8 O’clock in the morning. I was having breakfast along with my sisters and brothers. There was bombing day and night. A rocket slammed into our house... Full news...
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November 21, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: It is ironic that when the world marked the Universal Children’s Day Tuesday to celebrate the joy of childhood, hundreds of Afghan children were seen scavenging in Kabul’s dumps trying to eke out a living by selling whatever usable items to support their families. “I will be happy if I find some plastic packets, cardboard box or Pepsi cans to sell and earn some money,” the nine-year-old Jawad told Xinhua in a brief interview. Full news...
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November 19, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: According to reports Iran has executed at least 13 Afghan nationals around two months ago. A number of the close relatives of the victims who gathered near provincial government compound urged the government officials to transfer the dead bodies of the victims from Iran to Afghanistan. Full news...
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November 16, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Members of the minority Sikh community rallied against residents of the Qalacha neighbourhood of Kabul for opposing the cremation of their relatives’ bodies. Dozens of protestors in Pashtunistan Ward also accused the Afghan police and army of preventing them from burning their dead in line with their religious tradition. Full news...
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November 16, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA: A roadside bomb has ripped through a vehicle in western Afghanistan, killing 17 civilians who were part of a wedding celebration. Afghan officials say Friday’s blast occurred on a road in relatively peaceful Farah province. Most of the victims were women and children. At least 10 people were wounded in the attack. Full news...
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November 13, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Nearly 200 people staged a rally in the Baghlan-i-Markazi district of northern Baghlan province on Tuesday against local officials of involvement in abductions, land grab and torture. The protestors gathered in Jar Khoshk area, burning tyres and blocking the busy Baghlan-Kunduz highway for three hours. They called for the immediate sacking of senior district officials. Full news...
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November 12, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center: Over a decade after the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States and the military campaign in Afghanistan, there is some good news, but still much bad news pertaining to women in Afghanistan. The patterns of politics, military operations, religious fanaticism, patriarchal structures and practices, and insurgent violence continue to threaten girls and women in the most insidious ways. Full news...
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