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Human Rights Watch - Afghanistan - http://www.hrw.org/en/asia/afghanistan
Reports, background briefings, testimony, press releases and commentary on the human rights situation in the country. |
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US State Department - 2008 Human Rights Report: Afghanistan - http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/sca/119131.htm
2008 report on the current status of human rights practices including human freedoms, civil liberties, political rights, international investigations, discrimination, worker rights, child labor and working conditions. |
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Amnesty International USA - Afghanistan Human Rights - http://www.amnestyusa.org/all-countries/afghanistan/page.do?id=1011101
News, reports and success stories for the country including AI Annual Report entries for the past ten years. |
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Amnesty International - Afghanistan - http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/afghanistan
Ongoing collection of news and reports on the status of human rights. |
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The Taliban and Afghan Women - http://www.feminist.org/afghan/facts.html
The Feminist Majority Foundation campaign to assist women in Afghanistan describes the elimination of Women's rights and the humanitarian crisis. |
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Human Rights in Afghanistan - http://www.derechos.org/saran/afg.html?afghanistan
Derechos presents information and links on human rights in Afghanistan. |
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CNN: Life in Afghanistan under the Taliban - http://www.cnn.com/2001/COMMUNITY/08/24/shah/index.html
Freelance journalist Saira Shah on an undercover, under-burqa project captures the totalitarian brutality of Taliban rule on film. |
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Guardian: Behind the Burka - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4266035,00.html
Polly Toynbee. "With such a dearth of satisfactory allies, the coalition should turn to one Afghan group completely ignored so far - the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan." |
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British al-Qaida suspects disappear - http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,629676,00.html
Dozens of Taliban and al-Qaida suspects have disappeared from jails in Kabul and are beyond the reach of human rights monitors and diplomats. |
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Kabul's Lost Women - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A62604-2001Dec18¬Found=true
The Washington Post reports that many women and girls abducted by the Taliban are still missing. |