This is a story about the women and children of Badam Bagh, the only women’s prison in Kabul. It is home to some 90 inmates, many of them mothers. Eighteen-year-old Krishma is one of them….. Fawzia, inmate: “It’s been two months since my arrest. I’m in here because after my husband had...
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Archive for April, 2010
The Plight of Afghan Women in Prison
Big rise in Afghan child migrants
BBC News: United Nations aid agencies are increasingly concerned about the number of children from Afganistan migrating across Europe alone. Latest figures from the UN Refugee Agency show that the number of Afgan children under 18 who applied for asylum in Europe last year rose by 64%, from 3,800 to more than 6,000.
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Technology Spectacles: the Country that Produced MRE’s now gives Afghans Drones and GRR (Government-Ready-to-Rule) Kits
RAWA News: Future U.S wars in the Third World will involve massive use of drones to police the territory, employ local satrap forces (like those of Karzai’s Afgan Army) and once the territory has been pacified sufficiently, the deployment of “Government Ready-to-Rule (GRR)” kits. … it represents the quintessential American way of “solving” problems...
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Afghan survivors describe NATO helicopter assault
McClatchy Newspapers: The military helicopters swooped in from behind the three-vehicle convoy as it wound through a remote road in southern Afganistan , and survivors of last week’s deadly attack said they had no idea they were in danger until the lead four-wheel drive exploded. After seeing the gruesome aftermath of that rocket strike,...
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British soldier jailed for refusing to fight in Afghanistan
CNN: A British soldier who went absent without leave rather than return to fight in Afganistan was jailed Friday for nine months by a military court, officials said. Glenton, who completed a seven-month tour of duty in Afganistan in 2006, became an outspoken critic of British military operations in the country during his absence,...
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‘Afghan women lawmakers hamstrung by warlords’
AFP: Afgan women may hold a quarter of the seats in their country’s parliament but many are mere mouthpieces for warlords, who continue to set the legislative agenda, an Afgan women’s rights activist said. “Today we have 68 women in the parliament, 25 percent… We have a group of women high in quantity, but...
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No school for almost half of Afghan children
DAWN: Almost half of school-age children in Afganistan do not have access to education, President Hamid Karzai said Saturday as he inaugurated the new school year. “Five million school-age children in our country do not go to school, some because of war or because their schools have been closed by the Taliban or others,...
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Army launches investigation: Corrupt Afghans stealing millions from aid funds
The Independent: A major investigation has been launched into contracts awarded by coalition forces in Afganistan that are worth hundreds of millions of pounds. The probe into construction and logistics contracts of the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) has been ordered by Major General Nick Carter, commander of Isaf forces in the south of...
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