Afghanistan

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 […]

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.

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 […]

Aziza Khayrandish is a human rights activist and the director of the Civil Society and Human Rights Network in Herat

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 […]

Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 56 year VI

Source: The Guardian Group let out of Parwan detention centre by Hamid Karzai are accused by US military of killing Afghan and Nato forces. Afghanistan has released 65 accused militants from a former US prison […]

A well-known lawyer in Afghanistan, Mohammad Farid Hamidi is Deputy Director of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, where he has been a Commissioner for the past 11 years.

Dr. Habiba Sarabi is the first and only woman to be appointed a provincial governor in Afghanistan: she served as the Governor of Bamiyan province from 2005 until 2013.

Unveiling Afghanistan Campaign: Aman Pouyamak is a poet and a writer. He published a clandestine magazine, working in secret with Afghan women during the reign of the Taliban. After the Taliban’s departure, he established a literary society called Eshraq [Intuition].