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NewsAfghanistan: Still Searching for Inter-Ethnic Equilibrium
by Melissa Chiovenda A killing in Bamyan Province highlights the difficulty that Afghanistan is having in trying to find a new societal balancing point. Despite Afghanistan’s overall troubles, things had been going relatively well in...
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Human RightsAlternative Nobel Prize to Hazara Human Rights Activist Sima Samar
The Jury awards SIMA SAMAR (Afghanistan) “for her longstanding and courageous dedication to human rights, especially the rights of women, in one of the most complex and dangerous regions in the world”. It is the...
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ArtA Vizier’s daughter: a tale of Hazara War
A VIZIER’S DAUGHTER A TALE OF THE HAZARA WAR BY LILLIAS HAMILTON, M.D. COURT PHYSICIAN TO ABDUR RAHMAN, AMIR OF AFGHANISTAN Click here and download this book (PDF) Dr. Lillias Hamilton in 1895 Born 7...
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NewsKabul: Demonstration condemning killing Hazara girl Shakila
HPIN: Today university students and activists demonstrated in Kabul condemning the killing of 16 years old Hazara girl Shakila who was killed 6 months ego in Bamiyan. Hazara girl Shakila was killed inside Sayed Wahed...
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NewsAfghanistan’s Ulama Council wages war against women
By: Kamran Mir Hazar Kabul Press | Afghanistan Press The Afghan Ulama Council has boldly proclaimed a resolution that clearly continues to violate the right’s of women. “Ulama” is the plural form of the Arabic...
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NewsThe Afghan Patriarchy Does NOT Know Best
March 8, 2011 by Zareen Taj As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, Afghan women may have less to celebrate and more to fear–at least if a proposed law to bring women’s shelters under government...
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NewsHundreds of women activists in Dai Kundi urge UN to support their call for justice
Photo from Haji Oruzgani8 March 2011 – Hundreds of women carrying banners with “We Want Justice” written in Dari today urged provincial officials to make life better for women in Dai Kundi, where the United...
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Women RightsThe U.S. and Afghan activists condemn women’s shelter takeover plans
The United States has expressed concern over the Afghan government’s proposed changes to the regulation of women’s shelters, which will allow it to take over shelters for abused women. The proposal also brought Photo: TOLO...
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Human RightsEnough of injustice, cruelty and oppression
by Basir Ahang | Translated by Liaquat Ali Hazara Basir Ahang, Journalist In August, last year, it was reported from Kunduz Province in northern Afghanistan, that a young couple has been stoned to death by...
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Afghanistan: Government Takeover of Shelters Threatens Women’s Safety
Conservative Forces Hostile to Women’s Rights Drive Proposed Regulation Human Rights Watch | FEBRUARY 13, 2011 Photo: TOLO News(New York) – An Afghan government move to take over the operations of women’s shelters threatens the...
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