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Human RightsAfghan fears over a Taliban deal
By Lindsey Hilsum, Updated on 19 July 2010 As Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai moves to negotiate with the Taliban, International Editor Lindsey Hilsum travels to Bamiyan, to meet the female governor who fears that her...
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NewsHazaras Hustle to Head of Class in Afghanistan
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. and ABDUL WAHEED WAFA Published: January 3, 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan — For much of this country’s history, the Hazara were typically servants, cleaners, porters and little else, a largely Shiite...
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Human RightsFemale Afghan Governor Fears Taliban Deal
By ROBERT MACKEY On the eve of an international conference in Afghanistan, the country’s only female governor told Britain’s Channel 4 News that Afghan women should not have to sacrifice their rights as part of...
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Human RightsWomen, religious and female -phoebe culture
BY: Kawa Gharji People eager to interoperate Quranic verses may do so using demagogy, but no one can deny the institutionalized violence against women based on those very verses and consequently the culture that takes...
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Human RightsLegalising’ marital rape
Channel 4 News, Updated on 28 January 2010 Last spring President Karzai backed a law governing Shia family relations that effectively legalised marital rape and allowed for women to effectively be imprisoned in their homes....
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Human RightsWomen protesters against ‘marital rape’ law spat on and stoned in Kabul
Tom Coghlan in Kabul, April 16, 2009 A group of Afghan women who braved an enraged mob yesterday to protest against an “abhorrent” new Afghan law had to be rescued by police from a hail...
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DiscriminationAfghanistan: Massacre in Yakaolang
Media Advisory 28 March 2001 AI Index ASA 11/007/2001 – News Service Nr. 56 Afghanistan: Massacre in Yakaolang Amnesty International today issued a report on January’s massacre of over 300 unarmed men and a number...
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Discrimination
Massacres in Yakaolang
Amnesty International has now obtained detailed information which corroborates earlier reports of the massacre of civilians in Yakaolang in the central province of Bamiyan. According to eyewitness reports, Taleban forces began to arrest people and...
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Discrimination
Afghanistan: summary execution of civilians in Yakaolang
23 January 2001 AI Index AFA 11/001/2001 – News Service Nr. 013 Afghanistan: summary execution of civilians in Yakaolang Amnesty International today condemned the summary execution of scores of Afgan civilians by Taleban forces after...
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