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Our organizations strongly condemn the airstrike by U.S. forces on a Medecins sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan this Saturday, which killed at least 12 staff members and 10 patients, and injured scores more with death tolls expected to rise. FIDH echoes the calls by MSF for an independent investigation into the attack as a potential war crime, and in the absence of a swift and genuine investigation, urges the International Criminal Court (ICC) to consider this act as part of its ongoing preliminary examination into the situation in Afghanistan, to hold those responsible for violations of international humanitarian law accountable.

Press Release Transitional Justice Coordination Group (TJCG) Press Release Concerning War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in Kunduz 4 October 2015 Kabul, Afghanistan The fall of Kunduz to the Taliban has created a humanitarian crisis […]

This week’s issue of Armanshahr HR & Civil Society Newsletter No.137

We, the undersigned, are gathering to form an independent alliance of women-led civil society actors and organizations working to prevent and counter all forms of extremism. Our purpose is to bring synergy and greater coherence to our existing collective efforts, to advance gendered understandings of and responses to extremism, and to collaborate strategically in providing clear alternatives that bring a just peace for all.

We are publishing the call for the 4th Simorgh International Peace Prize, while flames of war are engulfing the world and countless humans are taking to the sea to flee the demon of war, to seek a shelter and achieve relative calm from fear for food and their lives.

source:The diplomat.com For three decades Afghanistan was the world’s largest producer of refugees. Millions have returned but problems remain. By Catherine Putz Afghanistan’s refugee crisis is decades old. Afghans began fleeing the country after the […]

Position Paper Senior Officials Conference on Afghanistan September 05, 2015 Afghanistan is being burned by conflict and insecurity. Every day, many brave soldiers and children of this country falls; the enemy is no longer around […]

Author(s): Charles J. Sullivan (Guest contribution) The city of Kabul has fallen on three occasions over the past generation: to the mujahedin in 1992, the Taliban in 1996, and the Northern Alliance (supported by a […]

Source: Pakistan Today Wars in Pakistan and Afghanistan have killed at least 149,000 people between 2001 and 2014, says a recent report by a US think-tank. The Watson Institute’s Costs of War Project also reports […]

By Shafik Mandhai/Source: Al Jazeera National institution says documents are of academic value, but laws may restrict researchers’ ability to access them. The British Library has decided not to acquire an archive of Taliban documents […]