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NewsAfghan Rights Body Concerned By Plan To Talk To Insurgents
September 08, 2010: The head of Afghanistan’s independent Human Rights Commission says that any peace talks with Islamic insurgents must be held in a way that does not “undermine human rights and justice” under the...
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Women RightsAway from tyranny, Afghan women dream of freedom
Aarzoo Hussain has just one dream – of going back home one day. ‘I would like to go back home one day… but only if the situation improves.’ New Delhi, Aug 29 – The small...
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VideosSetback for Women’s Rights in Afghanistan?
Katie Couric, The Road Ahead – If Taliban Returns to Power, it Will Also Mean a Return to Harsh Islamic Law (CBS), The prospect of bringing the Taliban to the bargaining table is raising fears...
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NewsAfghan couple stoned to death by Taliban
17 August 2010, 10:27AM Amnesty International has condemned the first Taliban executions by stoning carried out in Afghanistan since 2001. Photo of women killed by TalibanA couple were stoned to death on Sunday for ‘eloping’,...
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NewsHow Settling With the Taliban Puts Women at Risk
by Tom Malinowski, Washington Director Published in: The Washington Post August 15, 2010 “If you had to choose between saving a girl’s life or enabling her to go to school, which would you do first?”...
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VideosIn memory of Shaima Rezayee
Shaima Rezayee became a pop culture icon for Afghan youth, as the host of “Hop,” a music show on a private television network. Her appearances on the show, often wearing make-up and without a burqa,...
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Women RightsI hate the snow
Mehdi’s Story Twelve-year-old Mehdi witnessed the death of his mother during childbirth in the winter of 2007. The family lives in Shahristan District in the central province of Daykundi. Their village, like most in the...
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Human RightsHazara Human Rights Activist Dr. Sima Samar Talks at the Oslo Freedom Forum
In her talk at the Oslo Freedom Forum, Dr. Sima Samar explains how 31 years of war and invasion has forced Afghan society to become very conservative and unfriendly toward human rights and especially the...
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ArtThe epic story of “Chehel Dokhtaraan” (The Fourty Girls) in Uruzgan
The people of Ururzgan were justly and bravely defending themselves against the violent attacks by 120 thousand government troops with 40 thousand tribal troops recruited from the southern regions of the country. They were all...
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Human RightsOppression of Hazara in Afghanistan
Ms. Zareen Taj Womens & Human Rights Activist Zareen is from the Hazara ethnic group, the most persecuted ethnic minority in Afghanistan. As a child, she witnessed the Soviet invasion and occupation of her country...
By Omid Jafari