Full Coverage: Afghanistan

28.08.2006 Local authorities on Thursday appealed for emergency relief for thousands of families displaced by recent fighting and drought in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Fierce fighting between government forces and the ousted Taliban militia, coupled with this year’s particularly hash drought, have forced nearly 4,000 families to leave their homes.

24.08.2006 Domestic violence against Afghan women appears endemic, and attacks against them usually take place with impunity, according to a disturbing new report by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).

22.08.2006 Afganistanin toreilla kaupitellaan Taleban-järjestön tuottamia DVD-tallenteita, joiden avulla pyritään hankkimaan oikeutusta sodalle Yhdysvaltoja sekä Afganistanin nykyhallintoa vastaan. Yhdysvaltain sortotoimista kertovat tallenteet on suunnattu tavallisille muslimeille, ja ne vetoavat tutkijan mukaan myös koulutettuun väestöön.

11.08.2006 Afghan President Hamid Karzai's cabinet has approved a proposal to resurrect a notorious ministry set up under the Taliban that ruthlessly implemented a string of arbitrary laws in the name of regulating "virtue and vice."

07.08.2006 Afraid that attacks on schools--up six-fold since last year--could reverse the country's progress, UNICEF and Afghanistan's Ministry of Education have launched a task force to monitor and respond to incidents.

07.08.2006 Kabulissa pelattiin Afganistanin historian ensimmäinen tyttöjen jalkapalloturnaus. Sitä pidetään merkittävänä virstanpylväänä kaikille nuorille afgaaninaisille, joiden oikeuksia vuosikausia vallassa ollut Taleban-hallinto rajoitti.

04.08.2006 "Afghan women and girls face increasing insecurity, and it’s more important for the government to address how to improve their access to public life rather than limit it further. Reinstatement of this controversial department risks moving the discussion away from the vital security and human rights problems now engulfing the country" - Zama Coursen-Neff, senior researcher for Human Rights Watch.

04.08.2006 Afganistanin hallitus aikoo perustaa uudelleen etenkin naisten vapautta rajoittavan "hyveiden edistämisen ja paheiden torjumisen viraston". Naisten asema ei ole olennaisesti parantunut Talebanien jälkeisenä aikana, vaikka se
oli yksi Yhdysvaltain ja Britannian perusteluista Afganistanin sodalle.

01.08.2006 NATO, which had already assumed responsibility for security in the west and north of Afghanistan, took control of military operations for the volatile south of the country as well Monday, with a force of 8,000 comprised largely of Canadian, British, and Dutch soldiers.

01.08.2006 The NATO International Security Assistance Force has taken over operations in the south of Afghanistan from the US-led coalition. The NATO force consists of 8,000 troops mostly from Canada, Great Britain and the Netherlands.