PAN: Despite efforts at improving their overall situation, women continue to be the target of violence in western Herat province, officials said on the International Women’s Day. The Women Affairs Directorate said on Monday 633 cases of violence against females were reported in the province during the last solar year. Human rights officer at...
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Archive for March, 2010
Violence against women persists in Herat
AFGHANISTAN: Women’s rights trampled despite new law
IRIN: As the world marks International Women’s Day, ambivalence, impunity, weak law enforcement and corruption continue to undermine women’s rights in Afganistan, despite a July 2009 law banning violence against women, rights activists say. A recent case of the public beating of a woman for alleged elopement – also shown on private TV stations...
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One Month of the Obama Killing Machine in Afghanistan: Data and a Lesson for the UNAMA and its Groupies
RAWA News:Let the numbers tell the story. The following presents a detailed summary and analysis of Afgan civilians killed directly – so-called impact deaths – by U.S/NATO forces in Afganistan during a single month, February 2010. The Obama killing machine left 80-86 dead Afgan and Pashtun civilians. By contrast, the number in February 2009...
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In Kabul, hopelessness weighs on job hunters
The Los Angeles Times: The men come at dawn, a ragged, anxious collection of faces peeking through scarves and hoping for work as they stand in a traffic circle beneath billboards advertising war heroes and washing machines. They are bricklayers, gardeners, hole diggers and carpenters. Sometimes they are tapped on the shoulder, most times...
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HRW: Measure Brought into Force by Karzai Means Atrocities Will Go Unpunished
HRW: The Afgan government should urgently act to repeal a law that provides an amnesty to perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said today. The law was published unannounced in the official gazette, bringing it into force, despite repeated promises by President Hamid Karzai that he would not allow...
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Afghan police recruits abusing drugs, US report finds
BBC News: Drug abuse is rife in the Afgan police force with up to four out of 10 recruits testing positive for illegal drugs in some areas, a US report says. The report for the US Congress said the illegal drugs trade “undermines virtually every aspect” of efforts to secure Afganistan. Afganistan produces 90%...
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Afgan Women History
Many Afgan women have played very important and influential roles in the history of Afganistan, ...
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