Afghanistan
UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan Debate and Draft Presidential Statements
Source: What’s in Blue Tomorrow morning (25 June), the Security Council is scheduled to hold a debate on the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of UNAMA Ján […]
Wednesday، 25 June، 2014Adoption of Resolution on 1988 Taliban Sanctions Regime
Source: What’s in Blue Tomorrow morning (17 June), the Security Council is scheduled to adopt a resolution making minor adjustments to the functioning of the 1988 Taliban sanctions regime. This adoption follows a review of […]
Wednesday، 18 June، 2014Commentary: Beyond Elections — What Is Required For Real Democracy In Afghanistan?
Source: RFERL By Karim Lahidji and Guissou Jahangiri June 13, 2014 Much noise was made about the unprecedented voter turnout for the first-round elections in Afghanistan on April 5, with almost 7 million people (60 percent of […]
Friday، 13 June، 2014Emily MacKenzie: The Lawfulness of Detention by British Forces in Afghanistan – Serdar Mohammed v Ministry of Defence
Source: UK Constitutional Law Association On 2nd May, the High Court held that the UK Government must pay Serdar Mohammed (SM) compensation because British troops detained him unlawfully in Afghanistan. The case raised a myriad of international law issues, […]
Thursday، 5 June، 2014A Blessing or a Curse? Aid Rentierism and State-building in Afghanistan
Source: E-International Relations In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the United States, on October 1st 2001, announced its support for “a political transition and a UN-coordinated reconstruction […]
Sunday، 25 May، 2014Afghanistan’s Insurgency after the Transition – ICC Media Release and Report
Source: International Crisis Group To contain a growing, increasingly confident insurgency as NATO troops withdraw, Afghanistan needs continued international support, including military, and the new government in Kabul will need to reinvigorate the state’s commitment […]
Tuesday، 13 May، 2014Mohammad Ismail Qassemyar: “Poverty and unemployment have paralysed the lives of most Afghans”
Mohammad Ismail Qassemyar is a jurist who formerly headed the Public Security and Public Rights Courts of the Supreme Court and taught constitutional rights at university for seven years.
Tuesday، 13 May، 2014Massoud Hassanzada: “The biggest challenge facing Afghanistan is absence of true progressive forces to combat ignorance, corruption and fanaticism”
Massoud Hassanzada is a poet, journalist, musician, and literary critic from Herat. He has co-founded Morcha [the Ants] the first rock band in Afghanistan.
Monday، 12 May، 2014Abortion in Afghanistan: Trying to break a major societal taboo
Source: Quantara.de Birth control is a taboo topic in Afghanistan, the country with the highest birth rate in Asia. Many women resort to having illegal abortions in order to avoid social exclusion and to prevent […]
Saturday، 10 May، 2014Abdul Hamid Mobarez: “Democracy is the choice of the people and it is up to them to protect it”
Abdul Hamid Mobarez is a former chief of the official Bakhtar news agency, three-times governor and a founding member of the Federation and Chairman of Afghanistan National Journalists’ Union (ANJU). He was named Deputy Minister of Culture upon his return from exile.
Friday، 9 May، 2014
