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Environment News Service (ENS) By Zabihullah Ghazi KHOST CITY, Afghanistan, August 28, 2013 (ENS) – Once-green mountainsides across Afghanistan are still being stripped of their trees as the long-running process of deforestation continues. The head […]

I congratulate Armanshahr colleagues for their success, because they are a small group but full of energy, new and useful ideas.

“We do not seek to wash blood with blood; we seek justice!” This was the message of a one-day conference organised by Human Rights Focus Organisation with the support of 100 other civil institutions (including […]

The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, Armanshahr Foundation and the Herat Young People’s Literary Society organised a poetry reading night at the regional offices of the AIHRC in Herat on 4 June 2013 to celebrate the 11th anniversary of the commission’s establishment. Poets, writers, cultural activists and members of the AIHRC from different provinces were present at the meeting.

Ms Homeira Ghaderi (writer and women’s rights activist) made the following speech during the 118th Goftegu public debate of Armanshahr on 3 July 2013.

An alliance of 36 Afghan and international civil society organisations have urged the Afghan government and its donors to deliver on their commitment to effective oversight in the country’s extractives sector. The call, made in letters sent to the Afghan Minister of Mines, Wahidullah Shahrani (http://cts.vresp.com/c/?GlobalWitness/929710e6d6/18f696b56d/6462613399), and key international partners (http://cts.vresp.com/c/?GlobalWitness/929710e6d6/18f696b56d/c95e81902f) comes ahead of a crucial meeting taking place in Kabul on the 3rd July.

The session considered reports from the following seven State parties: Afghanistan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Cape Verde, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Serbia, and United Kingdom.

The Uzbek government continues to force its citizens to work in cotton fields, in hazardous conditions and for no or negligible pay. Meanwhile, the Government has indicated no interest in ending the forced-labour production system.

Despite constant dangers, Afghan women’s poetry continues to flourish. One outlet for women’s poetry is Mirman Baheer, Afghanistan’s largest literary society for women. Mirman Baheer operates in Kabul with over 100 members.

Global Voices Alexander Sodiqov An international conference on water cooperation ended in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, on August 21. More than 900 representatives from about 70 countries and organizations attended the conference. Yet the […]