Editor Selection
Sediqullah Towhidi: “We must guard vigilantly against a return to despotism”
Sediqullah Towhidi is the head of Nai [meaning: Flute], the leading non-government organization supporting open media in Afghanistan.
Wednesday 19 February 2014Khaleda Khorsand: “We should never be under the illusion that the Taliban’s return is impossible”
Khaleda Khorsand is a writer and human rights activist with the Civil Society and Human Rights Network in Herat
Tuesday 18 February 2014Afghanistan: No end to illegal abortions
Source: Kilid Group Read Media Release HERE By Khuja Basir Fetri and Zarghoona Salehi Desperate families are resorting to abortion in unsafe conditions, and abandoning new-borns, particularly female infants, in hospitals. It is not unusual […]
Monday 17 February 2014Farid Mazdak: “The process of building a modern state in Afghanistan has only just begun”
Farid Mazdak is a well-known left-wing political activist. He was the leader of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan in the early 1980s and a leadership member of the Vatan party in the late 1980s.
Monday 17 February 2014Media release: Breaking the Silence – No end to illegal abortions
Media release – Kabul, 14th February 2014 IMC PRODUCTIONS: A NEW MUST READ AND LISTEN INVESTIGATIVE REPORT Breaking the Silence – No end to illegal abortions By Khuja Basir Fetri and Zarghoona Salehi Desperate families […]
Monday 17 February 2014WHO Multi-country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence against Women
Initial results on prevalence, health outcomes and women’s responses Source: World Health Organization Donload and Read FULL Report HERE This report presents initial results based on interviews with 24 000 women by carefully trained interviewers. […]
Monday 17 February 2014Congress Cuts US Military and Development Aid for Afghanistan
Source: Washington Post With no perceptible opposition from the Obama administration, Congress has quietly downscaled Washington’s ambitions for the final year of the Afghan war, substantially curtailing development aid and military assistance plans ahead of […]
Monday 17 February 2014Aziza Khayrandish: “If the price of peace is sacrificing justice… it will be catastrophic for the women of Afghanistan”
Aziza Khayrandish is a human rights activist and the director of the Civil Society and Human Rights Network in Herat
Sunday 16 February 2014Afghanistan’s Bagram jail holds dark truths
Source: Khaleej Times 14 February 2014 BBC’s Yalda Hakim was recently given unprecedented access to Afghanistan’s Bagram jail. She describes what she saw. It is not often that you are given access to a maximum-security […]
Saturday 15 February 2014Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 56 year VI
Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 56 year VI
Friday 14 February 2014
