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May 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
San Diego Union Tribune: What do human rights, women’s rights, civil rights, justice, freedom of religion and freedom of speech have in common? They are all nonexistent in Afghanistan. In my six months here, I’ve witnessed the aftermath of the Taliban rule, which forced Islam on people, murdered women for going to school or not wearing a burqa, and stoned people for speaking their mind. Full news...
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May 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: At least 13 people, including children and women, were injured when a rocket shell landed near a house where a wedding party was taking place in the eastern province of Kunar on Friday, police said. The incident took place in the Watapur district early Friday when guests were gathered at a house to attend a wedding ceremony, police chief, Gen. Khalilullah Ziayee, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Persian (Translated by RAWA): Armed men raped a 12-year old girl in a village in Takhar province in northeastern Afghanistan. Her family members say six of these men were wearing police uniforms. The local Women’s Affairs office in Takhar confirmed the incident and the police of the province say they are searching for the criminals. Full news...
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May 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: The best place in the world to be a mom is Norway, where maternal and child mortality rates are low, women’s life expectancy and years in school are high, and the average maternity leave is about one year, a new study measuring the well-being of mothers and babies shows. Australia and Iceland join Norway at the top of Save the Children’s 12th annual Mothers Index, released Tuesday. Full news...
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May 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Five children, playing cricket, were injured when a mortar shell landed near them in eastern Kunar province on Sunday, residents said. The incident took place in the Manogi district in the evening, resident Yar Pacha told Pajhwok Afghan News. He said it was not known from which where direction and who fired the shell. Full news...
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April 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Newsweek: The young Afghan hates his new school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. “My classmates only talk about girls and movies,” he complains. A tall, thin 17-year-old with the straggly beginnings of a beard, he yearns for the high school he used to attend, a few miles away in the Afghan refugee camp known as Shamshatoo. Full news...
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April 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN (Translated by RAWA): A small girl, present in the administration of the Women’s Affairs of Sar-e-Pul, claimed she was raped by two of her uncles, but health officials say it has not been confirmed yet and further medical examinations are needed to prove the claim. 10-year old Nazanin, claimed that one year back her two step uncles raped her, and her paternal grandparents tortured, beat and poured hot oil on her. Full news...
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April 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: The United Nations warned on Friday of a looming food aid shortage in Afghanistan that could leave more than 7 million people hungry unless it received urgent cash donations of over 250 million USD to buy more supplies. Most of those who will go short of food are women and children, but overall those at risk make up nearly a quarter of the country's population of around 30 million... Full news...
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April 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The number of women toiling away alongside their husbands in the fields, construction and other hard labour is increasing in central Bamyan province, with many having to give up school to contribute to the family’s finances. Zahra, 36, lives in Surkh, and says she has worked as a farmhand for the past eight years. Full news...
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March 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The number of children born in Afghanistan with misshapen limbs and other deformities is increasing, doctors say, with several blaming intermarriage, drug use and chemicals contained in coalition weapons. There are no exact statistics of the number of children born with disabilities, but anecdotal evidence from hospitals in Kabul and the provinces suggests it is increasing. Full news...
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March 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Seven civilians, three of them children, were killed and five others wounded in a NATO air strike targeting insurgents in restive southern Afghanistan, a local official said Saturday. The governor of Helmand province said the two men, two women and three children died when the car they were travelling in was hit by NATO fire late Friday. Full news...
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March 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
UPI: NATO said Thursday it will investigate a police claim a NATO helicopter gunship targeting terrorists killed a child in the eastern Afghan Khost province. Coalition forces opened fire from the attack helicopter on a car carrying a group of suspected Haqqani network terrorists Wednesday but accidentally hit another vehicle, killing the child, Khost Police Chief Abdul Hakim Esahaqaai told reporters. Full news...
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March 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Abdul Majid, 12, sits crying quietly in a corner of the Ansar refugee camp in Herat province. He is alone in Afghanistan; his parents and seven siblings are all back in the Iran. He said he was out with some friends in a park near his home in Semnan province one evening when he was detained. Weeping bitterly, Abdul Majid said he did not know anyone in Afghanistan. Full news...
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March 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A vehicle of foreign troops traveling in a convoy crushed to death a child in southern Kandahar province, an official said on Sunday. The incident took place in the Chawni area of Kandahar City, the provincial capital, on Saturday afternoon, Zalmay Ayubi, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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March 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Two of Nasim’s sons went into the hills to collect firewood last week to warm the family’s humble home against the biting Afghan winter chill. They never returned, killed along with seven other children in a NATO air strike. “The Americans are wild,” said the boys’ father, who uses only one name and whose sons were aged 11 and 12, crying as he spoke. “They don't value humanity and don’t care about our children. Full news...
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March 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Hundreds of Afghan protesters poured into the streets of the northeastern provincial capital Assad-Abad on March 2 over the death of nine civilians killed in a NATO air strike, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan reports. NATO officially apologized on March 2 for what it called an “accident.” It said in a statement that "[the NATO-led] International Security Assistance Force apologizes... Full news...
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March 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Armed conflict is keeping 28 million children around the world out of schools, where they are often targets of sexual abuse and violence, according to a report released Tuesday by UNESCO. The report titled “The Hidden Crisis: Armed Conflict and Education” said that 42 percent of children not enrolled in schools around the world live in poor countries wracked by conflict. Full news...
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March 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New Yorker: Ten boys went out to gather firewood in a valley in Afghanistan on Tuesday. Only one came home; his name is Hemad, and this is what he had to say, as quoted in the Times: ...he helicopters hovered over us, scanned us and we saw a green flash from the helicopters. Then they flew back high up, and in a second round they hovered over us and started shooting. They fired a rocket which landed on a tree. Full news...
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February 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Progress made on ensuring girls in Afghanistan go to school is at risk as foreign countries prepare to withdraw from the war-torn country, a coalition of 16 aid agencies warned Thursday. It added that many donors are increasingly focusing on counter-insurgency projects rather than education ahead of Afghanistan’s army and police taking control of security in 2014 from international troops. Full news...
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February 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: An airstrike by NATO-led forces killed an Afghan army soldier along with five family members in the Khogyani district of eastern Nangarhar province, officials and relatives said on Monday. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has acknowledged the strike killed and wounded civilians and said it would look into the incident. Full news...
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February 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: Afghan government officials alleged that a U.S. military operation in the remote mountains of northeastern Afghanistan killed 64 innocent people, including 22 women and more than 30 children, the most serious civilian casualty allegation in months. "According to locals in the area, American helicopters have been constantly bombing the village and have caused tremendous civilian casualties," The governor of Kunar province, Fazlullah Wahidi, said in an interview. Full news...
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February 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in the report, which covers a two-year period from September 1, 2008 to Aug. 30, 2010, that children continue to be victims of suicide and rocket attacks, improvised explosive devices, and military operations by the Taliban and other armed groups as well as Afghan and international forces. Full news...
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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 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 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: ens of thousands of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Afghanistan are vulnerable to cold-related diseases but have little or no access to health services, according to aid agencies. Over 350,000 IDPs, including about 155,000 people displaced by conflict since November 2009, are living in camps and informal settlements in different parts of the country, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says. Full news...
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January 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: In a far flung corner of northern Afghanistan, Aziza reaches into the dark wooden cupboard, rummages around, and pulls out a small lump of something wrapped in plastic. She unwraps it, breaking off a small chunk as if it were chocolate, and feeds it to four-year-old son, Omaidullah. It’s his breakfast -- a lump of pure opium. Full news...
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January 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Farooq Wardak, the Afghan education minister and a key ally of President Hamid Karzai, claims that the Taliban leadership no longer opposes education for girls. The question is not whether this claim is true – teachers and students who continue to be terrorised by Taliban attacks would find it laughable – but why a senior Afghan official would engage in such misinformation. 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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January 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Frontline: In a country with deep rooted religious and social norms, it is baffling to see how young boys are readily available for sexual abuse. A documentary secretly filmed by an Afghan journalist exposes the heart wrenching custom where young Afghan boys are bought as sexual slaves for the rich. Full news...
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