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Gap Between Rich and Poor in Kabul

7-yaer-old Samia victim of violence

Fraidon, 7, was brutally murdered by warlords in Takhar

RAWA photos: Kabul in the gape of poverty and destitution

Public Hangings in 'Liberated' Afghanistan (Jan 2004)

RAWA photos: People's homes are destroyed by Kabul Police

Kabul one year after the Taliban

Beggary in Kabul

Taliban masscare 300 in Yakowlang

Criminals with god-father

NA brutalities



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Victims of the US war in Afghanistan

Killing war-prisoners


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  • Dec.26, 2006: 2006: year of bloodshed in Afghanistan
  • Dec.12, 2006: HRW: Karzai Must Hold Officials Accountable for Past Crimes
  • Dec.9, 2006: New Taliban Rules Target Afghan Teachers: 2 teachers killed
  • Dec.6, 2006: Drug addiction on rise with Afghan kids
  • Nov.29, 2006: Warlords gang-rape a woman in Badakhshan
  • Nov.29, 2006: 100 suicide attemps among women in 8 months in Kandahar
  • Nov.27, 2006: Almost half of all Afghan children not in school - Oxfam
  • Nov.24, 2006: Abuse of Afghan women: 'It was my decision to die. I was getting beaten every day'
  • Nov.18, 2006: Afghan Women Commit Suicide by Fire
  • Nov.16, 2006: Protesters for Jawzjan governor resignation
  • Nov.16, 2006: Violence against women on the rise in north of Afghanistan
  • Nov.11, 2006: Post-Taliban Kabul blossoms for the rich
  • Nov.7, 2006: Police rapes a girl in Takhar, Women are sold in Faryab
  • Nov.5, 2006: They’d rather die: brief lives of the Afghan slave wives
  • Nov.5, 2006: Sanobar, 11-years-old girl is abducted and raped by warlords (with photos)
  • Oct.31, 2006: Womankind Worldwide: No 'real change' for Afghan women
  • Oct.31, 2006: Burnt children after a NATO bomb attack (shocking photos)
  • Oct.28, 2006: More civilians die in Afghanistan; UN expresses concern
  • Oct.25, 2006: 90 civilians perish in NATO air strike: Residents
  • Oct.23, 2006: 30 killed as two warlords clash in Herat
  • Oct.23, 2006: Social problems behind women's suicide in Helmand
  • Oct.23, 2006: Stone Age still lingers on in Bamyan, many live in caves
  • Oct.18, 2006: 22 civilians die in southern Afghanistan offensives by NATO
  • Oct.18, 2006: Millions face hunger in Afghanistan as drought worsens, warns aid group
  • Oct.2, 2006: Takhar residents took to streets against armed men
  • Sep.27, 2006: HRW: Human Rights Protections Need Greater Priority
  • Sep.25, 2006: Top Afghan woman official killed
  • Sep.20, 2006: Rights Watchdog Alarmed At Continuing 'Honor Killings' in Afghanistan
  • Sep. 5, 2006: How US dollars disappear in Afghanistan: quickly and thoroughly
  • Sep. 4, 2006: Opium cultivation surges by 59% in Afghanistan
  • Sep. 2, 2006: Man publicly executed in Helmand
  • Aug. 14, 2006: UNIFEM: "65% widows in Kabul see suicide the only option to get rid of their miseries"
  • Aug. 10, 2006: Taliban Kill a Woman and Hang Her 13-Year-Old Son
  • July 30, 2006: People of Paghman protest against Sayyaf, police kill 2 protesters (with photos)
  • July 29, 2006: Journalists were beaten by armed men while covering anti-Sayyaf demonstration
  • July 18, 2006: Vice and Virtue Department Could Return, Women and Girls Again at Risk
  • June 13, 2006: Afghan journalists living with fear
  • June 13, 2006: UN details atrocities committed over 23 years of conflict in Afghanistan
  • June 6, 2006: Afghan police part of the problem
  • June 5, 2006: Attack of Police to Girl's Dormitory in Balkh
  • May 30, 2006: Anti-US riots grip Kabul city, 8 killed many injured (with photos)
  • May 30, 2006: Seven aid workers, including 3 women, killed in Afghanistan
  • May 23, 2006: US airstrike on Afghan village kills dozens civilians (with photos)
  • May 14, 2006: Hundreds Demonstrate in Takhar against Warlords, Murder of Children (with photo)
  • May 14, 2006: Poverty, violence put Afghanistan's fabled Kuchi nomads on a road to nowhere
  • May 9, 2006: Attacks, 40% unemployment rate plague Afghanistan
  • May 9, 2006: Malalalai Joya, female MP was physically and verbally attacked in the parliament floor
  • May 5, 2006: US not interested in peace in Afghanistan: Kathy Gannon
  • May 4, 2006: HRW: Most of the 34 New Police Chiefs Are Human Rights Abusers
  • April 12, 2006: Afghan schools torched in war against education
  • April 11, 2006: Six school children killed in a rocket attack
  • Apr.9, 2006: Lifting the veil on the Afghan sex trade
  • April 6, 2006: Gulbuddin's terrorist party has 34 members in the parliament
  • Mar.21, 2006: UNICEF warns of continued threat facing women and children
  • Mar.20, 2006: Christian convert faces death penalty in Afghanistan
  • Mar.12, 2006: The Northern Alliance may supply arms to Taliban
  • Mar.6, 2006: Women rights situation in Afghanistan worries AIHRC
  • Feb.26, 2006: Millions of dollars worth of aid money is being wasted
  • Feb.23, 2006: In Herat, curbs on sports perturb girl students
  • Feb.21, 2006: The Whole Justice System of Afghanistan is Rotten
  • Feb.19, 2006: Gunmen attack HBL car, decamp with $320,000 in Kabul
  • Feb.8, 2006: 7-year-old Samia, victim of family violence (Photos and movie clip)
  • Feb.6, 2006: Some cabinet ministers in Afghanistan are deeply implicated in the drugs trade
  • Jan.26, 2006: Gulbar, an Afghan woman is burnt by her husband (Photos and movie clip)
  • Jan.21, 2006: Gap between rich and poor widens in Afghanistan
  • Jan.4, 2006: Militants behead headmaster in S. Afghanistan
  • Dec.17, 2005: HRW: Warlords Dominate New Parliament
  • Dec.3, 2005: Protesting disables attack the ceremony of World Handicaps Day in Kabul
  • Dec.1, 2005: Afghan carpet weavers are unpaid slaves, rights activist says
  • Nov.21, 2005: The US Rebuilding Plan Full of Cracks
  • Nov.8, 2005: Being a writer -or woman- still dangerous in Afghanistan
  • Oct.29, 2005: Winning Afghan candidates become warlords' targets
  • Oct.23, 2005: Islamists and Mujahedeen Secure Victory in Afghan Vote
  • Oct.6, 2005: Female foe of warlords faces them in Afghan assembly
  • Oct.3, 2005: Opium farmers sell daughters to cover debts to traffickers
  • Sep.30, 2005: EU sees "worrying" cases of fraud in Afghan vote
  • Sep.29, 2005: Was Women's Vote a Roar, or a Whisper?
  • Sep.21, 2005: Journalists abducted, arrested and threatened in pre-election violence
  • Sep.19, 2005: The women of Afghanistan find a leader
  • Sep.16, 2005: US Exporting Fake Democracy -- By Force
  • Sep.15, 2005: Attacks, Intimidation as Parliamentary and Provincial Polls Launch
  • Sep.5, 2005: Funny: Impoverished Afghanistan donates $100,000 to Katrina victims
  • Aug.19, 2005: A year before 9/11, diplomat said US ’not out to destroy the Taliban’
  • Aug.17, 2005: UN says Afghan elections under threat from violence, corruption
  • Aug.10, 2005: Afghan Woman Accused of Being U.S. Spy Is Killed
  • Jul.19, 2005: New report by AJP accuses high-ranking officials of violating human rights
  • Jul.18, 2005: Violence against women in Afghanistan remains dramatic – UN expert
  • Jul. 7, 2005: Bring War Criminals to Justice (HRW names top criminals in Afghanistan)
  • Jul. 5, 2005: 17 Afghan civilians killed in US attack
  • June 20, 2005: CRISIS PROFILE: Afghanistan still the ‘sick man’ of Asia
  • June 2, 2005: 27 die in Afghanistan mosque bombing
  • May 31, 2005: Two dead, 33 wounded in protests in northeast Afghanistan
  • May 30, 2005: The Taleban may be gone, but the abuse of women goes on
  • May 30, 2005: AI: Afghan Women Still Under Attack -- Systematic Failure to Protect
  • May 29, 2005: The Lure of Opium Wealth Is a Potent Force in Afghanistan
  • May 24, 2005: HRW: Violence Surges in Afghanistan
  • May 19, 2005: Seven aid workers killed in Afghanistan
  • May 2, 2005: Three Afghan women found dead with warning note
  • Apr.23, 2005: A woman was stoned to death in Afghanistan
  • Apr.10, 2005: Afghan city mourns its lost children, looks back to Taliban
  • Apr.8, 2005: Afghanistan facing health disaster worse than the Tsunmai
  • Mar.28, 2005: Forgetting Afghanistan - Again
  • Mar.26, 2005: Afghanistan: Media Black Hole
  • Mar.12, 2005: Warlord rapes going unchecked in Afghanistan, HRW
  • Mar.3, 2005: Afghanistan "Narco-State": UN
  • Mar.3, 2005: Concern over Dostum appointment as chief-of-staff
  • Mar.2, 2005: Bitter winter kills more than a thousand children in Ghor province
  • Jan.23, 2005: Afghan women still in chains under Karzai
  • Jan.10, 2005: Women Prisoners Complain of Bad Conditions and Sexual Abuse
  • Dec. 2004: Access to Justice for Afghan Women
  • Dec.7, 2004: Warlords, poppies and slow progress
  • Nov.29, 2004: Taliban Suspected in Raid on Aid Group That Kills 3
  • Nov.16, 2004: Lawlessness in southern Afghanistan (photo)
  • Nov.12, 2004: Afghan women offer to replace hostages
  • Oct.18, 2004: Female election worker commits suicide after rape attempt on her (photo)
  • Oct.21, 2004: 12-years old Rahima was gang-raped by warlords
  • Oct.15, 2004: Massive fraud in Afghanistan vote
  • Oct.2, 2004: Afghanistan's presidential election: a mockery of democracy
  • Sep.28, 2004: Warlords Threaten Integrity of Election
  • Sep.23, 2004: Afghan Women No Better Off; US accused of not fulfilling promises
  • Oct.1, 2004: Afghan opium production predicted to reach new high
  • Aug.23, 2004: US Soldiers Kill 3 Civilians at a Checkpoint in Afghanistan
  • Aug.17, 2004: Mashal-e-Democracy Weekly Stops Publication for Insecurity
  • Aug.15, 2004: 21 Killed in Afghanistan Attacks Directed at Provincial Governor
  • Aug.12, 2004: US marines accused of Afghan abuse
  • Aug.10, 2004: Desperate life of Afghan refugees in Kacha Abadi in Pakistan
  • Aug.9, 2004: Afghan rights advocate expects death
  • Aug.5, 2004: Afghanistan gunmen kill 2 working for relief agency
  • July 30, 2004: British parliamentary committee: Afghanistan could implode
  • July 29, 2004: MSF pulls out of Afghanistan due to lack of security
  • July 28, 2004: Bomb Kills 6, Including 2 UN Workers
  • July 27, 2004: A populist hero emerges from under the rule of the gun
  • July 22, 2004: Ex-GI, Charged in Kabul, Says He Was on US Mission
  • July 15,2004: Warlords greater threat to security than the Taliban
  • July 1,2004: Taliban Say Cut Throat of Afghan Christian
  • June 27,2004: Blast Kills 2 Afghan Women On Election Workers' Bus
  • June 25,2004: Afghanistan at Risk (ICG report)
  • June 25,2004: NATO's Shame in Afghanistan
  • June 11,2004: Killing of 11 Chinese Workers in Afghanistan
  • June 7,2004: Afghan children fall prey to killers who trade human organs
  • June 3,2004: Five Aid Workers Shot to Death in an Ambush in Afghanistan
  • May 25,2004: War Returns with a Vengeance as Allies Fail the Afghan People
  • May 10,2004: Two foreigners stoned to death in Afghanistan
  • Apr.30,2004: Afghan Schoolgirls Poisoned
  • Apr.17,2004: Afghan province bans women performers on TV, radio
  • Apr.11,2004: Afghanistan's poor losing homes: UN report
  • Apr.4, 2004: Afghan actors beaten for playing music
  • Mar.26,2004: AI ask world community to uphold its human rights responsibilities
  • Mar.22,2004: Heavy fighting in Herat city after minister dies, 100 killed
  • Mar.10,2004: Taliban-style restrictions alive in west Afghanistan
  • Mar.1,2004: Self-Immolation Of Women On The Rise In Western Provinces
  • Feb.23,2004: Ahmad Shah Massoud links with CIA
  • Feb.12,2004: Rule of the rapists
  • Jan. 19, 2004: US helicopter fires killing 11 villagers including 4 children
  • Jan. 7, 2004: Twelve civilians killed by gunmen in southern Afghanistan
  • Jan. 15, 2004: Afghanistan's Supreme Court protests women singing on TV
  • Jan. 2, 2004: Mujaddedi calls delegates 'infidel'
  • Dec.29, 2003: Afghanistan's Women after 'Liberation'
  • Dec.17-23, 2003: Woman delegate almost expelled from Afghan assembly
  • Dec. 8, 2003: US air raid kills nine children in south Afghanistan
  • Nov. 29, 2003: Thousands of married women were expelled from school
  • Nov. 28, 2003: Amnesty International: Constitution fails women
  • Oct. 30, 2003: Afghanistan 'at the mercy of narco-terrorists'
  • Oct. 29, 2003: Afghanistan, the world's leading opium producer
  • Oct. 27, 2003: Afghan editor forced to flee to Canada: Target of religious law
  • Oct. 7, 2003: Remembering innocent victims of the US strikes on Afghanistan
  • Oct. 6, 2003: AI: No justice and security for women
  • Sep. 23, 2003: Apathy of Afghan women after Taliban
  • Sep. 13, 2003: RAWA report from Shirpur and list of people engaged in the crime
  • Sep. 12, 2003: UN accuses top Afghan ministers of land grab
  • Sep. 4, 2003: Police violently evict Kabul residents (with photos)
  • Sep. 3, 2003: Endangered Peace in Afghanistan
  • Aug. 13, 2003: Report exposes continuing human rights abuses
  • Jul. 31, 2003: Now we pay the warlords to tyrannise the Afghan people
  • Jul. 29, 2003: HRW Report on Threats to Women's Rights, Freedom of Expression
  • Jul. 25, 2003: Author finds little progress in Afghanistan
  • Jul. 4, 2003: Afghan women: Fighting for the right to sing
  • June 23, 2003:The Afghan Who Wouldn't Fight (Ahmad Shah Massoud's deals with the Soviet Army)
  • Jun. 18, 2003: US Risks Losing Afghanistan Peace
  • May 2, 2003: HRW: Sharp Rise in Press Attacks in Afghanistan
  • May 2, 2003: Eve Ensler: This is Most Fragile Time for Afghanistan
  • Apr.29, 2003: An overview of the situation in Afghanistan after “liberation”
  • Apr.29, 2003: UN reports serious rights violations in NW Afghanistan
  • Apr.22, 2003: "Climate of fear" rules Afghanistan
  • Apr.9, 2003: US Admits 11 Civilians Dead In Bombing Raid On E Afghanistan
  • Mar.22, 2003: Afghanistan: the Taliban's smiling face
  • Mar.12, 2003: Afghan Police Accused of Rights Abuses
  • Feb.26, 2003: Afghanistan has been well and truly betrayed
  • Feb.23, 2003: Afghan poor sell daughters as brides
  • Feb.1, 2003: Afghan Warlords Killing at Will
  • Jan.29, 2003: War 'has ruined Afghan environment'
  • Jan.28, 2003: Film Accuses U.S. of Atrocities at Dasht-i-Leili
  • Jan.24, 2003: British Parliament: "Afghanistan Could Fall Back Into Anarchy"
  • Jan.21, 2003: Afghan Chief Justice Bans Cable TV
  • Jan.14, 2003: Disabled War Vets Accusing the Govt. of Misusing Aid Donations
  • Dec.23, 2002: Afghanistan: Rogues on the loose
  • Dec.18, 2002: US Broke Law in Use Of Cluster Bombs in Afghanistan
  • Dec.18, 2002: US Troops Blamed in Afghan Kids' Deaths
  • Dec.17, 2002: Post-Taliban Warlords Oppress Afghan Women
  • Dec.15, 2002: Severe Cold Kills 41 Afghan Refugee Children
  • Dec.13, 2002: Afghan refugees freeze to death
  • Dec.12, 2002: Warlords are Afghanistan's new worry number one
  • Dec.8, 2002: Old Fears in the New Afghanistan
  • Nov.18, 2002: Self-Immolations on Rise in Afghanistan
  • Nov.16, 2002: Book: U.S. Paid Off Afghan Warlords
  • Nov.13, 2002: Reporters Without border on the situation of press in Afghanistan
  • Nov.12, 2002: Afghan Police Fire on Student Protesters, Killing 4 and Wounding 30
  • Nov.9, 2002: U.S. Used More DU Weapons in Afg. Than in Gulf War: Dracovic
  • Nov.6, 2002: Afghan Women Die Giving Birth at Staggering Rate
  • Nov.5, 2002: HRW Reports Rights Abuses by Afghan Governor Ismail Khan
  • Nov.2, 2002: Afghan Woman Fired for Meeting Bush Uncovered
  • Nov.2, 2002: Disappointed repatriates likely to re-enter Pakistan
  • Oct.30, 2002: Afghan Girl's Schools Struck by Attacks
  • Oct.25, 2002: Afghanistan is again the world's largest opium producer, UN
  • Oct.23, 2002: UN rights expert: Afghanistan's cycle of violence not over
  • Oct.19, 2002: Two Killed, 40 Hurt in Attack on Afghan Wedding
  • Oct.16, 2002: Aghan police beat musicians defying ban
  • Oct.14, 2002: Widespread abuse, restrictions on freedom continue
  • Oct.8, 2002: Pashtuns driven from northern Afghan villages
  • Oct.5, 2002: Teachers and Students Protest Against Warlords in Takhar Province
  • Oct.4, 2002: Fighting Resumes in North and West of Afghanistan
  • Sep.23, 2002: Afghan Alliance Says Karzai Treading a Risky Path
  • Sep.15, 2002: Karzai brothers' fury at US failures
  • Sep.8, 2002: Afghan Women Remain Victims of Hope Unfulfilled
  • Aug.26, 2002: Witness reports of mass grave and war crimes, A NEWSWEEK investigation
  • Aug.19, 2002: UN: Afghan govt. has largely failed to eradicate the opium poppy crop
  • Aug.14, 2002: Armed Men Rob UNHCR Office in Afghanistan
  • Jul. 31, 2002: UN keeps damning report on Afghan massacre secret
  • Jul. 30, 2002: Women at risk in Afghanistan
  • Jul. 27, 2002: Afghan women still languish
  • Jul. 24, 2002: Karzai Takes On Secret Service Led by Defense Minister
  • Jul. 20, 2002: What the future holds for the women of Afghanistan?
  • Jul. 16, 2002: Bush, Burqas and the Oppression of Afghan Women
  • Jul. 7, 2002: 'Cruel' Americans stormed homes, filmed naked women: villagers
  • Jul. 1, 2002: Civilian catastrophe as US bombs Afghan wedding
  • Jun. 29, 2002: Red Cross Warns Afghan Children Off Cluster Bombs
  • Jun. 21, 2002: Why is the US media blacking out documentary on war crimes in Afg.?
  • Jun. 21, 2002: The Warlords Win in Kabul
  • Jun. 20, 2002: HRW: Warlords Emerge from Loya Jirga More Powerful Than Ever
  • Jun. 20, 2002: ZARMINA'S STORY
  • Jun. 15, 2002: "A female worker was gang raped in northern Afghanistan", UN
  • Jun. 13, 2002: Afghan worlords hindering Loya Jirga process: HRW
  • Jun. 6, 2002: Afghanistan: Warlords return
  • June 1, 2002: Meanwhile, Back in Afghanistan...
  • June 1, 2002: Rabbani, Sayyaf [2 criminals] elected to Loya Jirga council
  • May 29, 2002: Afghanistan's troubled start to democracy
  • May 28, 2002: Turkey's record in Kurdistan is a grim warning to Afghan women
  • May 25, 2002: Prisoners released from northern prison speak of brutality and greed
  • May 23, 2002: Famine Hits Drought-Ridden Afghanistan
  • May 20, 2002: The full human cost of US air strikes
  • May 12, 2002: Is Ahmad Shah Masooud a legitimate candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize?
  • May 9, 2002: HRW: Women Still Under Threat
  • May 7, 2002: UN team finds evidence of summary execution, suffocation in mass graves
  • May 5, 2002: Freedom of Press in Afghanistan?
  • Apr.28, 2002: Afghan laws still repress women
  • Apr.17, 2002: Afghan Woman Teacher Attacked with Acid
  • Mar.2002: Why is the mainstream media ignoring the mass death of Afghan civilians?
  • Mar.20, 2002: Northern Alliance gunmen rape fourteen-year-old Fatima and her mother
  • Mar.2002: Depleted Uranium In Bunker Bombs (America's big dirty secret)
  • Apr.22, 2002: Bombing a Taliban Religious Ministry Building and Killing 30 Civilians
  • Apr.22, 2002: America used Islamists to arm the Bosnian Muslims
  • Apr.10, 2002: A deserved Afghan family cries for URGENT help
  • Mar.15, 2002: 3 Afghan women awaiting repatriation die
  • Feb. 22, 2002: Afghans flee hunger and strife
  • Mar.2002: "The US [Govt.] doesn't give a damn for women's rights in Afghanistan"
  • Feb. 24, 2002: Warlord's men commit rape in revenge against Taliban
  • Feb. 20, 2002: Villagers Tell of Over 100 Casualties
  • Feb. 1, 2002: Data on 11 Weeks of US Cluster-Bombing of Afghanistan