Afghanistan

Source: UNAMA UNAMA notes the announcement today of the main findings and recommendations of the President’s fact-finding delegation tasked to investigate torture and ill-treatment of detainees by Afghan authorities in Afghan detention facilities. UNAMA has not yet received […]

Source: Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights The Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights created this Annotated Bibliography for the Women’s Regional Network to provide a guide to the landscape of academic research […]

Source: Amnesty The families of thousands of Afghan civilians killed by US/NATO forces in Afghanistan have been left without justice, Amnesty International said in a new report released today. Focusing primarily on air strikes and night […]

Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 81 year VII

In this year’s contest, 46 films were accepted from countries in the Middle East and North Africa, Central and South Asia, Europe, and North America, in the categories of Fiction, Documentary, Experimental, and Student.

The untold stories of Afghan women who have suffered great violence in the past three decades of the country’s turbulent history have been documented by UN Women in a report produced by its Country office in Afghanistan.

Source: Afghanistan Institute for Strategic Studies Introduction The ANA is commonly viewed as one of post-2001 Afghanistan’s strongest institutions, if not the strongest. However, with the imminent withdrawal of international forces, the ANA’s ability to […]

The Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) organized a round-table discussion titled “Conversation with Dr. Spanta on, “National Unity Government: Structure and Priorities” in Kabul, as part of its Afghan presidential election program.

Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies(AISS) published an election-related book titled ”Afghan Democracy: Opportunities and obstacles”. This book consists of articles coming form different perception which mainly focus on the experiences of the last election and shed the light for the future.

In Afghanistan, the third Great Game is still on. The end of US–NATO combat operations in Afghanistan by the end of 2014 will be read by many as ‘Obama’s Vietnam’, but the retention of a small number of troops and several military facilities by the US in that country will be a source of worry.