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June 29th

• Kabul Express - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

June 23rd

• IRIN | AFGHANISTAN: Insecurity, lack of aid prompt IDPs to leave camp: from the page: "Over 1,000 families in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, have opted to return to their home areas in the north and northwest of the country because of worsening insecurity and lack of aid at the camp. Zherai Dasht camp, about 25km west of Kandahar city, was home to hundreds of thousands of IDPs in 2002-2005. Most have returned home over the past four years but some 3,000 families still live in the camp... According to a study by the US-based Brookings Institution, many returning IDPs face serious reintegration difficulties in their original areas due to the lack of access to basic services - drinking water, healthcare, employment and education... In 2002, about 1.2 million people became internally displaced, most of them ethnic Pashtuns who left their homes in northern and northwestern provinces out of fear of ethnic cleansing by victorious anti-Taliban Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara militias." ;

June 22nd

• Afghanistan: Insecurity, lack of aid prompt IDPs to leave camp | IRIN Asia 22.06.09: Over 1,000 families in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, have opted to return to their home areas in the north and northwest of the country because of worsening insecurity and lack of aid at the camp. Zherai Dasht camp, about 25km west of Kandahar city, was home to hundreds of thousands of IDPs in 2002-2005. Most have returned home over the past four years but some 3,000 families still live in the camp, according to the provincial department of refugees. Mohammad Azam Nawabi, director of the refugees? department in Kandahar, told IRIN 1,087 families had formally expressed

June 17th

• IRIN Asia | AFGHANISTAN: Uphill struggle for potato farmers in Bamyan Province: from the page: ".. Potato cultivation in Bamyan Province, central Afghanistan, employs thousands of people and output can top 150,000 tons a year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture... But whilst the province produces more potatoes than it needs, over 70 percent of the people in Bamyan are considered food insecure, according to the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development and aid agencies... Farmers and officials in the provincial agriculture department say every year thousands of tons of potatoes are lost due to a lack of facilities where potatoes and seeds can be protected from extreme weather conditions... Poor roads prevent farmers from selling their produce further afield, including abroad... ?Farmers will stop potato cultivation here unless the problems of storage rooms, transport and marketing are solved,? said Mohammadi. Bamyan has been poppy-free, but he warned this could change if farmers found it too difficult to make a profit from potatoes." ;

May 30th

• Clear & Sharp Discussions of Daily Life
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May 6th

• Patrick Cockburn: Afghans to Obama: Get Out, Take Karzai With You

May 2nd

• Do we need guns to establish our rights? | Kabul Press: from the page: "People in Daikondi have been demonstrating for several days, asking the government and international community to discharge the corrupt governor Orazgoni and a judge accused of sexual abuse, Shirzad. They also want the immediate release five individuals who were imprisoned for disclosing information about official corruption and sexual abuse in Daikondi. The five are also outspoken promoters of the necessity for building passable roads, adequate schools and health clinics in their deprived area... Despite several days of peaceful demonstrations by more than a thousand men, women and children of all ages, there has been no notice by the Afghan government or local or international media... Why do they not help the peaceful province Daikondi where the Hazaras live? According toOxfam, in 2007, the total budget for Daikondi?s Agriculture Department was only 2,400 USD. Many suspect this is part of the on-going pattern of ethnic discrimination ..."

April 29th

• Hazara - Wikipedia

April 16th

• Hazaristan Times: Haven't spent the time to understand the politics of this site, but the experience of Hazaras interest me generally (They're Afghani, Shi'a, and live near the Bamiyan Buddhas)

April 6th

• Kabulpress comments on the Afghan government?s ?Rape Law." More evidence of re-Talibanizat ion of Afghanistan: from the page: "The truth behind the ?Afghan Shiite Personal Status Law? is a story of manipulation by the autocrats that run the Afghan government. It goes well beyond the reasons for global outrage now aimed at Afghanistan. Consider the following: The law consists of approximately 250 detailed restrictions that apply to Shia only, and invade their personal privacy. It is so-called ?Sharia Law? written by Mullahs with alleged dark pasts of violence, human rights violations and perverted sexual activities. 95% of the Afghan Shia minority are ethnic Hazaras, and Hazaras have no desire for Islamic Sharia Law. These Sharia Laws were written by the Afghan Pashtun Sunni majority to restrict and discriminate against the Hazara Shia. These laws were written by the same people who created and promoted the Taliban thirty-five years ago... The Afghan Shia have historically supported basic human rights and equality of the sexes... Afghanistan?s only woman governor is a Shia Hazara..." ;

April 4th

• Karsai billigt "Taliban-Geset z" für schiitische Frauen | Sven Hansen, taz 04.04.09: Afghanistans Präsident und Parlament verabschieden ein Gesetz, das Vergewaltigung in der Ehe legalisiert. - Ein vom afghanischen Präsidenten Hamid Karsai unterzeichnete s Familiengesetz für die schiitische Minderheit der Hasara wird von Menschenrechts gruppen als großer Rückschritt für die Frauenrechte kritisiert. Das 263 Seiten umfassende Gesetz war nach Angaben einer Abgeordneten im Februar ohne Lesung im Parlament durchgewunken und Ende März von Karsai abgesegnet worden. Artikel 133 lautet: "Eine Frau darf das Haus nicht ohne Erlaubnis ihres Mannes verlassen.&quo t; Ausnahmen seien nur medizinische oder andere Notfälle.

April 3rd

• New Law Seen As Setback For Afghan Women's Rights | Golnaz Esfandiari, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 03.04.09: A new law that applies only to Shi'ite Muslims in Afghanistan threatens to reintroduce some Taliban-era restrictions and reverse progress on women's rights in a country still struggling to recover from years of oppressive rule. The law, which has not yet been published, was passed by parliament and was reportedly signed by President Hamid Karzai earlier this month. Since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, women in Afghanistan have seen their situation improve slowly but surely with the return of basic rights, such as the right to study and work. But the new legislation threatens to turn back the clock. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has called on President Hamid Karzai to rescind the law, saying that it is reminiscent of the decrees passed by the Taliban in the 1990s. Reports say that Karzai signed the law under pressure from influential Shi'ite clerics in order to secure the vote of the Hazaras in the upcoming presidential election.

April 1st

• 'Worse than the Taliban' - new law rolls back rights for Afghan women | Jon Boone, The Guardian 31.03.09: Hamid Karzai has been accused of trying to win votes in Afghanistan� 39;s presidential election by backing a law the UN says legalises rape within marriage and bans wives from stepping outside their homes without their husbands' permission. The Afghan president signed the law earlier this month, despite condemnation by human rights activists and some MPs that it flouts the constitution&# 039;s equal rights provisions. The final document has not been published, but the law is believed to contain articles that rule women cannot leave the house without their husbands' permission, that they can only seek work, education or visit the doctor with their husbands' permission, and that they cannot refuse their husband sex.

March 27th

• Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Unknown Afghanistan | Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch 27.03.09: The signals coming from the Obama administration as a "strategi c review" of Afghan policy is nearing completion this week are, to say the least, confusing. While much new thinking on the Afghan War has been promised, early leaks about the review's proposals for the next "three to five years" largely seem to promise more of the same: a heightened CIA-run drone war in the Pakistani borderlands, more U.S. military and economic aid for Pakistan, more training of and an expansion of the Afghan army, and of course more U.S. forces -- the president has already ordered 17,000 extra troops into the war. When it's all over and we finally do leave, as Pratap Chatterjee, the author of a new must-read book, "Hallibur ton's Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War", discovered on a visit in November, the Afghans of Bamiyan Province will be at least as poor as they ever were in what will remain a devastated country.

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