Full Coverage: Afghanistan

26.04.2006 Afghan President Hamid Karzai's new Cabinet currently includes no women, since he did not reappoint the three who had previously served in the 25-member ministerial body.

25.04.2006 After benefiting from a surge in funding following the fall of the Taliban at the end of 2001 and consequently clearing over half the minefields in Afghanistan, the United Nations Mine Action Programme for the country (MAPA) is currently projecting a funding shortfall in 2006.

19.04.2006 A television roundtable has brought Afghanis some crucial analysis of the Danish cartoon controversy, hoping to raise the level of debate in the country where 11 people died in riots over the issue.

18.04.2006 Afghan women and girls continue to face extreme obstacles and discrimination as they seek to exercise their rights, according to the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission.
* Afghanistan: UN helps reintegrate ex-combatant families through teacher-training

13.04.2006 A Tajikistan agency is de-mining the Afghan-Tajik border which is one of the highest mine-risk areas in central Asia. The Tajik de-mining body hopes to clear mines in a 2,000 sq metres area within three weeks.

12.04.2006 Afghan President Hamid Karzai invited the Indian IT companies to sep up joint ventures in Afghanistan on Tuesday.

11.04.2006 Five medical staff working for a Christian Aid-funded organisation have been murdered in north-west Afghanistan. The killings follow the death of two Catholic development agency workers in a mine attack in Sri Lanka.

10.04.2006 Tämän päivän Afganistanissa ei ole kenelläkään helppoa. Tavallisen ihmisen elämä on turvatonta; aseelliset, ihmishenkiä vaativat yhteenotot ovat yleisiä ja kaikenlainen terrori rehottaa. Laittomat vangitsemiset, kidutus, raiskaukset ja naiskauppa ovat arkipäivää. Maan huonosta ihmisoikeustilanteesta kävi Helsingissä kertomassa Afganistanin ihmisoikeuskomitean puheenjohtaja Sima Samar.

06.04.2006 Ihmisoikeuksien puolustaminen on keskeinen osa sekä köyhyyden vastaista taistelua että terrorismin torjuntaa, todettiin Åbo Akademin ihmisoikeusinstituutin ja ulkoministeriön järjestämässä Aasiaan! -kampanjan seminaarissa Turussa keskiviikkona.