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Swiss
Foundation of Terre des hommes –Headquarters
www.tdh.ch
Website of
the Swiss Foundation of Terre des hommes in Lausanne,
Switzerland
www.terredeshommes.org
Website of the International Federation of Terre des hommes
IFTDH. A network of 10 organisations Terre des hommes, works for
the rights of the child and promotes equitable development without
racial, religious, cultural or gender-based discrimination.
www.tdhegypt.org
Website of the Swiss Foundation of
Terre
des hommes
in Egypt. The presence of Terre des hommes in Egypt
dates back to 1983. It has been legalized in 1999 by an agreement signed
with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Its projects are implemented with
the recognition of the Ministry of Social Affairs. Currently, it is
present in Egypt through 4 branches, in the governorates of Cairo,
Ismailia, Sohag and Assiut.
www.tdhnepal.org
Website of the Swiss Foundation of Terre des hommes – projects
and programs in Nepal. The
presence of Terre des hommes in Nepal dates back to 1985. The
website provides political news and publications since 2000, and is also
offering a web portal for Nepal.
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Children
www.childtrafficking.com
A South
Asia - based internet platform and digital library of experts for:
researchers, policy makers, program advisors, anti-trafficking
activists, journalists and NGOs. With more than 1,700 documents on human
trafficking – covering more than 130 countries. Run by Terre des
hommes and supported by the consulting Ray of Hope.
www.Child-soldiers.org
Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
www.stopchildtrafficking.org
Campaign against Child Trafficking Website
www.watchlist.org
Website protecting the security and rights of
children in specific armed conflicts
www.un.org/children/conflict
UN Website for Children and Armed Conflict
The Human Cost.
The Consequences of Insurgent Attacks in
Afghanistan.
This
report is about insurgent attacks and their consequences. It is based on
accounts provided by witnesses, victims, and victims’ relatives, and a
thorough review of records and reports of incidents in 2006 and through
the first two months of 2007. The report also includes an assessment of
statements by insurgent groups themselves, who often claim
responsibility for attacks that kill and injure large numbers of
civilians. April 2007
http://www.humansecuritybulletin.info/
Human
Security Bulletin ‘The delivery of Humanitarian Assistance in
Afghanistan’
This month’s issue of the HSB focuses on the
militarization of aid and the fight for humanitarian space. It includes
essays by Lara Olson, Associate (NGOs, Aid and Conflict), Centre for
Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary on ‘Fighting for
Humanitarian Space: NGOs in Afghanistan’ and an essay by Cheshmak
Farhoumand-Sims, Assistant Professor in conflict studies at St. Paul’s
University in Ottawa on the negative face of the militarization of aid.
(February 2007).
http://www.princeton.edu/lisd/publications/AfghSummary_2006.pdf
Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination. Princeton University.
‘Creating Security and Stability in Afghanistan and the Region’.
This eight page document outlines policy
recommendations addressing critical issues facing the state of
Afghanistan: perception and security, the rule of law, mobilization of
the economy, and trans-border issues. (January 2007).
http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/asia/south_asia/b59_afghanistans_endangered_compact.pdf
ICG:
Afghanistan’s endangered compact’^
In this 16 page policy brief, the ICG
argues that one year on, the Compact has yet to have much impact.
Afghans and internationals alike still need to demonstrate the political
will to undertake deep-rooted institutional changes if the goals of this
shared vision are to be met. (January 2007).
http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/asia/south_asia/125_pakistans_tribal_areas___appeasing_the_militants.pdf
ICG:
‘Pakistan’s Tribal Areas: Stop Appeasing the Militants’
Taliban
and other foreign militants, including al-Qaeda sympathisers, have
sheltered since 2001 in Pakistan’s Pashtun-majority Federally
Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), seven administrative districts
bordering on south eastern Afghanistan. This paper argues that the
state’s failure to extend its control over and provide good governance
to its citizens in FATA is equally responsible for empowering the
radicals. The only sustainable way of dealing with the challenges of
militancy, governance and extremism in FATA is through the rule of law
and an extension of civil and political rights. (December 2006).
http://www.baag.org.uk/downloads/reports/BAAG%20Briefing%20Pack%202006.pdf
1.1
BAAG (Nov 2006), Briefing Pack
The
purpose of this revised Briefing Pack for Afghanistan is to provide
essential background information for newly recruited staff working for
humanitarian agencies. It is also aimed at consultants, researchers,
journalists and others who need to travel to Afghanistan or whose work
requires them to engage
with Afghans living in exile. The document provides background
information on the recent history of Afghanistan and the organisation of
aid and seeks to offer guidance on the inter-relationship between the
aid process and the wider context. (December 2006).
http://www.asiafoundation.org/pdf/AG-survey06.pdf
Asia
Foundation: ‘Afghanistan in 2006: A Survey of the Afghan People’
The survey details Afghans’ perceptions of democracy, security, poppy
cultivation, and the 2005 parliamentary elections -- as well as
attitudes towards governing institutions, the role of women and Islam in
society, and the impact of media. It was conducted between June and
August 2006 and consists of a random sample of 6,226 in-person
interviews with Afghan men and women, 18 years of age and above, from
different social, economic, and ethnic communities. Rural and urban
areas in 32 of the 34 provinces were covered, with Uruzgan and Zabul --
representing approximately 1.1 percent and 1.2 percent of the
population, respectively -- excluded due to extreme security conditions.
(November 2006).
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/SOUTHASIAEXT/Resources/Publications/448813-1164651372704/UNDC.pdf
UNODC
and the World Bank: ‘Afghanistan's Drug
Industry: Structure, Functioning, Dynamics, and Implications for
Counter-Narcotics Policy’
The UNODC report finds that ‘although
Afghanistan accounts for more than 90 percent of global illegal opium
output, the bulk of opium growth this year has been concentrated in
Helmand and a few other highly insecure and insurgency-ridden provinces
in the south. Elsewhere in the country patterns have been much more
mixed, with increases in some provinces and reductions in others.
Consequently, even in this year – a year of record production - opium
takes up less than 4 percent of the total cultivated area in
Afghanistan. An estimated 13 percent of the population was involved in
opium poppy cultivation. Most districts and localities do not grow
opium. Although the opium economy accounts for around one-third of total
economic activity in the country, most Afghans are not part of the drug
industry.’ (November 2006).
http://www.acbar.org/downloads/ACBAR%20Briefing%20Paper%20Nov,%202006.pdf
ACBAR
Briefing Paper: ‘Aid Effectiveness in Afghanistan: At a Crossroads’
This
paper examines some of the key issues relating to aid effectiveness in
Afghanistan from the perspective of NGOs operating there. Issues raised
included current levels of aid; government capacity and absorption
(unspent aid); state building efforts and support to service delivery;
transition plans for development; regional development; military support
and donor support for front line services.
(November 2006).
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/education/bp93_afghanistan.htm
Oxfam
Briefing Paper, ‘Free, Quality Education for Every Afghan Child’
This new briefing paper from Oxfam reports that despite a 500 per cent
increase in enrolments in the last six years, half of all children in
Afghanistan still do not go to school. Those who do, encounter an
environment in whicih there are not enough teachers, and/or inadequate
resources and facilities. The paper outlines a number of contributing
factors including unco-ordinated and opaque budget allocation and
spending in the education sector by various stakeholders, and the steep
contributions required by households that deter entry to the formal
education system.
(November 2006).
http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/061030_voices_initial.pdf
Patel,
S. ‘Voices of Afghanistan: An evaluation study’, Centre for Strategic
and International Studies.
“Afghans are less hopeful today than they were a year ago. The
state-building mission has lost ground, and is slipping further into the
"danger zone." These are the initial findings and first impressions of
Measures of Progress 2006, a study being conducted by the PCR Project,
to evaluate the impact that reconstruction efforts have had on the
average Afghan. Seema Patel discussed her insights on Afghanistan upon
her return from nearly seven weeks in the country. (October 2006).
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2006/afghanistan0706/afghanistan0706webfullwcover.pdf
Lessons in Terror.
Attacks on Education in Afghanistan. This 142-page report
documents 204 incidents of attacks on teachers, students and schools
since January 2005. This number, which underestimates the severity of
the crisis due to the difficulty of gathering data in Afghanistan,
reflects a sharp increase in attacks as the security situation in many
parts of the country has deteriorated. There appear to have been more
attacks on the education system in the first half of 2006 than in all of
2005. Southern and southeastern Afghanistan face the most serious
threat, but schools in other areas have also been attacked. (July 2006.)
http://fic.tufts.edu/downloads/HA2015AfghanistanCountryStudy.pdf
Humanitarian Agenda 2015 Afghanistan Country Study. 53 p.
This study is part of a research program
undertaken by the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University on
“The Humanitarian Agenda 2015: Principles, Politics and Perceptions” (HA
2015).1 The key findings of the research in Afghanistan are presented in
the following pages under the four HA 2015 headings: the universality of
the humanitarian enterprise; terror and counter-terror and its impact on
humanitarian action; coherence of political and humanitarian endeavors;
and issues related to security of communities and humanitarian
personnel. This is preceded by a brief historical background and by an
overview of Afghans’ perceptions of the aid effort. A final section
presents key conclusions and (policy) recommendations. June 2006
http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/asia/south_asia/116_afghanistan_new_legislature_making_democracy_work.pdf
Afghanistan’s New Legislature: Making Democracy Work. The new National
Assembly has the potential to play a vital role in stabilising
Afghanistan, entrenching pluralism, institutionalising political
competition and giving voice to the country’s diverse population. By
being accountable to the Afghan people it can demand accountability of
the presidential government. However, the success of this fledgling
institution remains delicately poised, particularly because of the
absence of a formal role for political parties, essential for mediating
internal tensions. The lack of such organised blocs has seen
power-brokers of past eras try to dominate proceedings. New moderate
forces need to move quickly now to establish formal groups within the
houses to ensure their voices are heard. (May 2006).
http://hrw.org/reports/2006/ct0406/ct0406webwcover.pdf
By the Numbers. Findings of the Detainee Abuse and Accountability
Project. This 27-page report presents findings of the
Detainee Abuse and Accountability Project, a joint project of New York
University’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, Human Rights
Watch and Human Rights First. The project is the first comprehensive
accounting of credible allegations of torture and abuse in U.S. custody
in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo. (April 2006).
http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/asia/south_asia/107_rebuilding_the_afghan_state_the_european_union_s_role.pdf
Rebuilding
the Afghan State: The European Union’s Role.
Since the Taliban’s fall in 2001, the European Union (EU) has been a
major contributor to Afghanistan. A substantial European Commission (EC)
delegation oversees an annual budget of some €200 million in development
aid, and a Special Representative (EUSR) is in residence. Altogether the
EC and member states pledged nearly a third of the money at the 2002
Tokyo and 2004 Berlin donor conferences and the latter contribute over
two thirds of the peacekeeping troops as well as Coalition forces
battling anti-government insurgents. However EU influence is less than
it should be. As a new agenda is drawn up to succeed the Bonn process,
the EU needs more internal coordination if it is to gain greater
leverage and hold the Afghan government to higher standards of
governance and democratic development. (November 2005).
http://hrw.org/reports/2005/afghanistan0605/afghanistan0605.pdf
Blood-Stained Hands.
Past Atrocities in Kabul and Afghanistan’s Legacy of Impunity.
This 133-page report is based on extensive research by Human Rights
Watch over the last two years, including more than 150 interviews with
witnesses, survivors, government officials, and combatants. It documents
war crimes and human rights abuses during a particularly bloody year in
Afghanistan’s civil war—the Afghan calendar year of 1371, from April
1992 to March 1993, following the collapse of the Soviet-backed
Najibullah government in Kabul. (July 2005).
http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/asia/south_asia/101_afghanistan_elections_endgame_or_new_beginning.pdf
Afghanistan Elections: Endgame or New Beginning?
Elections for Afghanistan's National Assembly and Provincial Councils are
a critical opportunity to achieve a sustainable peace in a country that
is still emerging from a quarter century of conflict, created and
exacerbated by ethnic, sectarian, regional and linguistic divisions. A
representative and functional National Assembly could prove a crucial
step in stabilising Afghanistan by allowing diversity of voices in
decision-making. Provincial Councils could also help extend the
authority of central government by introducing legally approved layers
of devolution. (July 2005).
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/getfile.cfm?id=1835&tid=3493&l=1
Political
Parties in Afghanistan.
As parliamentary elections approach in September 2005, early hopes that
a strong, pluralistic political party system would help stabilise
Afghanistan's political transition are fading. Karzai government
policies, accompanied by an inappropriate voting system, are sidelining
the parties at a time when there is increasing popular dissatisfaction
with the slow progress in economic reconstruction, rising corruption and
continued insecurity. This is worrying since it was marginalisation and
intolerance of political opposition that stunted the development of a
pluralistic system, and was largely responsible for past violence in
Afghanistan. If current laws constraining party functioning are not
changed, political stability will be illusory. (June 2005).
http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/asia/south_asia/b035_afghanistan_getting_disarmament_back_on_track_web.pdf
Afghanistan: Getting Disarmament Back on Track.
The process of disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of
forces is crucial to creating the conditions for the Karzai government
to extend its authority throughout the country and for establishing the
rule of law, but its ultimate fate is still very uncertain. Thus far it
has helped decommission or reduce most of the officially recognised
militia units in Afghanistan, and with the support of the Coalition and
the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), has collected the
bulk of their heavy weaponry. But it has failed. (February 2005).
http://www.icg.org//library/documents/asia/south_asia/088_afghanistan_from_presidential_
to_parliamentary_elections_2.pdf
Afghanistan: From
Presidential to Parliamentary Elections.
42 p. "The October 2004 presidential election went well,
and Afghanistan now has its first ever popularly elected president. But
the parliamentary, provincial and district elections now scheduled for
April 2005 will be considerably more complicated, and preparations are
going too slowly. If the parliamentary vote is delayed again -- it was
originally to have been concurrent with the presidential election --
there is a risk that the Karzai administration's legitimacy will be
seriously tarnished. Both his government and the international community
need to put in more resources and make more progress in the next few
months on improving security, cutting down the power of the warlords,
and attacking the spreading influence of the drugs trade." (November
2004).
http://hrw.org/backgrounder/asia/afghanistan1004/afghanistan1004.pdf
Between Hope and Fear - Intimidation and Attacks against Women in
Public Life in Afghanistan. 39 p. “Continuing religious and cultural
conservatism, and a dangerous security environment, mean that women
still struggle to participate in the country’s evolving political
institutions. Regional military factions and religious conservative
leaders, as well as the Taliban and other insurgent forces, are limiting
Afghan women’s participation in society through death threats,
harassment, and physical attacks.” (October 2004)
http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/asia/afghanistan0904/afghanistan0904.pdf
The Rule of the Gun - Human Rights Abuses and Political Repression in
the Run-up to Afghanistan’s Presidential Election. 52 p.
“Parliamentary elections have been postponed until 2005 because of
security concerns and logistical problems. Major security and human
rights problems persist, and seriously endanger the country’s future.”
(September 2004)
http://hrw.org/reports/2004/usa0604/usa0604.pdf
The Road to Abu Ghraib. This 38-page report examines how the Bush administration
adopted a deliberate policy of permitting illegal interrogation
techniques – and then spent two years covering up or ignoring reports of
torture and other abuse by U.S. troops. The torture and mistreatment of
Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison was the predictable result of the
Bush administration's decision to circumvent international law. The Bush
administration has denied having a policy to torture or abuse detainees.
Human Rights Watch calls on President Bush to provide evidence for those
denials by publicly releasing all relevant government documents. Human
Rights Watch also urges the administration to detail the steps being
taken to ensure that these abusive practices do not continue, and to
prosecute vigorously all those responsible for ordering or condoning
this abuse. (June 2004)
www.crisisweb.org//library/documents/asia/south_asia/040330_elections_n_security_in_afghan.pdf
Elections and Security in Afghanistan There is need to do more
than ensure that Afghanistan gets adequate long-term funding -- the
objective of the 31-March-1 April Berlin conference. Lack of security,
slow progress in the disarmament of militias, and a weakly developed
legal and institutional framework for democratic politics endanger the
success of the presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for
September. (31 March 2004)
www.fpif.org/papers/2004afgh-stbuild.html
"Afghanistan can boast of many remarkable achievements over the past two
years: the adoption of a national development and budget framework, the
reform of central government ministries, the return of millions of
children to school, the repatriation of 2.5 million refugees and the
resettlement of 600,000 internally displaced peoples (one of the largest
voluntary refugee influxes in history), the introduction of a new
currency (the Afghani), and the adoption of a constitution through a
democratic process. However, in spite of these advancements, security
remains precarious, and the vast majority of the population has yet to
see a peace dividend." (March 2004)
www.fpif.org/papers/2004taliban.html
Are the Taliban Really “Gone”? Mark Sedra is a research associate at the Bonn
International Center for Conversion. He recently returned from
Afghanistan, where he spent two months assessing the needs of the Afghan
security sector on behalf of the UN and the Afghan government. He writes
regularly for Foreign Policy in Focus. March 2004.
http://hrw.org/reports/2004/afghanistan0304/
Enduring Freedom: Abuses by U.S. Forces in Afghanistan
This 59-page report is based on research conducted by Human Rights Watch
in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2003 and early 2004. Human Rights Watch
documented cases of U.S. forces using military tactics, including
unprovoked deadly force, during operations to apprehend civilians in
uncontested residential areas—situations where law enforcement standards
and tactics should have been used. Afghan forces deployed with U.S.
forces have also mistreated persons during search and arrest operations
and looted homes. The report also details mistreatment in U.S. detention
facilities. March 8, 2004.
www.crisisweb.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=2417
Afghanistan’s proposed new constitution is significantly flawed. The
draft differs radically from the one the Constitutional Review
Commission submitted to President Karzai in late September and would be
unlikely to ensure inclusive, democratic governance and protect human
rights – issues central to its public acceptance and national stability.
www.preventconflict.org/portal/centralasia/policy.php
The
Conflict Prevention Initiative: Program on Humanitarian Policy
and Conflict Research. Provides a searchable database of links to
critical reference materials, maps, regional and international news
sources, as well as easy access to information on organizations and
specialists active in the field – with more than 2.000 online articles.
Afghan Legal Reform:
Challenges and Opportunities
(HPCR Policy Brief, Jan 2003) (also
Dari version)
Securing Communities for
Reconstruction in Afghanistan:
Views from Afghan
community leaders in refugee camps in Iran
(HPCR Policy Brief 6, 23 May 2002)
Securing
Communities for Reconstruction in Afghanistan:
A
Summary of Interviews and Discussions with Community and NGO Leaders
(HPCR Policy Brief 5, 16 Apr 2002) (also
Dari version)
Afghanistan: A New Era of
Humanitarian Assistance
(HPCR Policy Brief 4, 13 Mar 2002)
Key Challenges for Recovery in
Afghanistan
(HPCR Policy Brief 3, v2, 14 Jan 2002)
The Role of Islam in Shaping
the Future of Afghanistan
(HPCR Policy Brief 2, 15 Oct 2001)
Internal Displacement in
Afghanistan: New Challenges
(HPCR Policy Brief 1, v3, 14 Jan 2002)
www.ceip.org/files/pdf/Policybrief11.pdf
Preventing
New Afghanistan : A Regional Strategy for Reconstruction
www.ceip.org/files/pdf/Policybrief12.pdf
Rebuilding
Afghanistan : Fantasy versus Reality
www.ceip.org/files/Publications/wp2.asp?from+pubauthor
Politics
at the heart: The Architecture of Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan
www.cmi.no/pdf/Peacebuilding%20Afghanistan.pdf
Peace-building Strategies for Afghanistan
www.cmi.no/pdf/2001/Reports/rapport%20R%202001-4.pdf
Humanitarian Challenges in Afghanistan: Administrative Structures and
Gender and Assistance
www.ssrc.org/sept11/essays/rubin.htm
Afghanistan and Threats to Human Security
www.carnegiecouncil.org/about/transcrip_johnson.html
Afghanistan: The Challenges of Post-Conflict Assistance
www.jha.ac/articles/a069.htm
Coherence
or Cooption: Politics, Aid and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan
www.swisspeace.ch/html/program/koff/reports/1_2001.pdf
Afghanistan: Reconstruction and Peace building in a Regional Framework
www.swisspeace.ch
A practice-oriented peace-oriented institute with headquarters in Berne,
Switzerland
http://pro.harvard.edu/abstracts/021/021007FearonJame.htm
James
Fearon, David Laitin: Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War.” A paper
that shows that current prevalence of internal war is mainly the result
of a steady accumulation of protracted conflicts since the 50s and 60s.
www.jha.ac/articles/a069.htm
The role
of humanitarian action in relation to the Afghan conflict & whether
humanitarian agencies can contribute to peace building.
Afghan Culture and Heritage
www.afghan-network.net/Ethnic-Groups/
Information on the Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks and Turkmens, Hazara,
and other groups in the country
www.hazaraonline.f2s.com/
News and cultural site by and about the Hazara people of Afghanistan.
Includes discussion of crimes against Afghanistan's ethnic groups and
women
www.hazara.net
Website
about the
Hazara people in Central Afghanistan
www.hazara.org/
The Hazara people of Central Afghanistan
www.afghan-network.net/Ethnic-Groups/pashtuns.html
The Pashtuns of Afghanistan – location, history and politics
www.bethany.com/profiles/clusters/8027.html
The Pashtuns: profile of the warrior peoples of Afghanistan and
Pakistan and an explanation of the Pashtunwali code of ethics
www.stw.ryerson.ca/~hbaig/ism_whatsnew.html
Shia Ismailis of Afghanistan – information, news and resources
www.afghan-network.net/Ethnic-Groups/tajiks.html
The Tajiks of Afghanistan
www.superluminal.com/cookbook/index_gallery.html
Gallery of Art of the Muslim World: featuring examples from Iran, Syria,
Egypt, Morocco, Al-Andalus, Turkey, Afghanistan, India, and Indonesia
www.afghan-network.net/
News and links to subjects on all things Afghani, from politics to
arts to culture. Offers email, the Afghan News Channel, and more.
www.geocities.com/afghanistan_ca/Buzkashi.html
Brief overview of the famous traditional Afghan sport Buzkashi
www.afghan-web.com/sports/buzkashi.html
Explanation of the traditional Buzkashi in which
riders
compete to gain control of a headless carcass
www.escapeartist.com/efam29/buzk.html
History of the game which dates back to the time of Ghengis Khan
www.powerup.com.au/~afghans/music_midi.htm
Audio songs, Afghani Singers' photo album, and MIDI instrumental
page
www.public.asu.edu/~apnilsen/afghanistan4kids/
Interactive look at pre-war Afghanistan. Includes Kabul, storybook
character Mullah Nasrudin, Afghan food and clothing, and pictures.
www.afghanistans.com
Invites Afghans to express their opinion about issues, which affect
their lives, A forum for the mutual support of the Afghan community
www.purabudaya.com/resources/bamiyan/bamiyan.htm
Information on Buddhism in Afghanistan and the two monumental
Buddha
www.unesco.org/opi2/afghan-crisis/
Includes an international petition to safeguard Afghanistan's cultural
heritage
www.unomaha.edu/~world/cas/cas.html
Center for Afghan studies
www.rawa.org/museum.html
Several articles describing the destruction of ancient statues as
well as the pillage of the Kabul Museum. From the Revolutionary
Association of the Women of Afghanistan
www.archaeology.org/online/features/afghan/
The destruction and plunder of the National Museum in Darulaman,
near Kabul. Includes a list of stolen or imperiled artifacts and map of
archaeological sites in Afghanistan
www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/afghanistan_ethnoling_97.jpg
Illustrates regions populated by different Iranian, Turkic, and
other language-speaking groups
www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Afghanistan
Languages and related information about Afghanistan
www.mughalgardens.org/
The gardens of the Islamic dynasty that ruled between 1526 and 1858
in territories now divided among northern India, Pakistan, and
Afghanistan
www.host.bip.net/javed/Eid-Card1.htm
Offers virtual greeting cards
www.afghan-info.com/LANGUAGE.HTM
Literature and language – Pashtu and Dari – in Afghanistan
www.lionlmb.org/lion/marjan.html
Tribute to the lion who lived most of his life in Kabul,
Afghanistan
www.afghan-network.net/Balkhi/
Biography of the poet Maulaana Jamalludin Balkhi
www.powerup.com.au/~afghans/music_mpm.htm
Afghan classical, folk, and contemporary music
www.megastories.com/attack/aip/aipindex.shtml
Offers English-language translations from the Peshawar-based news
agency which is close to the Taliban movement in Afghanistan
www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Library/3658/
Poetry of great Persian writers from Iran and Afghanistan. Also
providing Farsi translations
www.col.com.pk/~afghan/
Society
for the Preservation of Afghanistan’s Cultural Heritage - newsletter
dealing with the 1990s events at Kabul Museum.
www.aems.uiuc.edu/HTML/AfghanistanLinks.htm
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has put together a guide for
teachers who want to teach (or learn) more about this region of the
world and includes links to lesson plans,
photo galleries, documentary videos, maps, news, and more
Photos
Afghanistan
www.lukepowell.com
A
wonderful photo exhibition about Afghanistan
www.geocities.com/hewad_picture/
Images of modern and classic architecture
www.uwm.edu/Library/digilib/afghan/
Wonderful Images from the Harrison Forman Collection - documenting the
life and culture of Afghanistan in the late 1960s
www.foto8.com/issue02/afghan1.html
Photojournalist Iikaa Uimonen treks across Afghani mountains to see
how a village has survived war and drought
www.bohemianscafe.net/Afg/AfgFrame.htm
Images from Afghanistan
www.ciriello.com/
Ciriello Raffaele: freelance photojournalist that mainly covers
wars and areas of conflict. Includes photos from Afghanistan, Kosovo,
Sierra Leone, and Rwanda
www.news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2001/war_on_terror/fall_of_kabul
Photo
essay from the BBC
www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/presents/index.veil.html
Beneath the veil: inside Taliban Afghanistan. Image gallery from
Saira Shah's documentary
www.time.com/time/photoessays/afghan/
Photo essay and report underscoring the effects of drought, politics,
religion, and poverty on the Afghan people
www.notsorry.com/afghan.html
Photos and comments from a 1975 overland trip to Bamiyan and Band-i-Amir
www.ifrance.com/Afghan/
Historical photos retracing the country's history - Includes
portraits, maps, and photographs
www.geoimages.berkeley.edu/GeoImages/Powell/PowellAfghan.html
Pictures of Kabul, winter scenes, Bactrian Plain, Nuristan, and
more
www.alain-rempfer.com/
Photos from Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, and Morocco by French
photographer Alain Rempfer
www.perso.wanadoo.fr/dc.images/Afgha1.htm
Photos of Kabul, Valley of Bamyan, and Band-i-Amir taken in 1978.
Politics and Government
The Government of Afghanistan is committed
to sharing information openly with its international and national
partners and with the Afghan people. This website is part of this
commitment to transparency, along with sites managed by Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, a Dari and Pashto site managed by the Office of the
President, and other Line Ministry sites.
The Afghan
Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC)
pursuant to the Bonn Agreement was
established and became functional following a decree of the president of
the Interim Administration of Afghanistan (AIA) on 6 June 2002. The New Afghan Constitution
adopted at the Constitutional Loya Jirga (the grand assembly) on 5
January 2004 provides for a permanent independent Human Rights
Commission.
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?afghan_loyajirga_archive.html
IWPR with
support from the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) reported
on all stages of the Loya Jirga and recorded all 70 hours of the
proceedings. From this recording a transcript has been created in its
original languages (Dari & Pashto). 337 pages. (This file is 4.9 mega
bytes and may take some time to download, please be patient.)
http://www.iwpr.net/afghan_index1.html
Institute
for War and Peace Reporting supports the recovery of the Afghan media by
training journalists, syndicating articles on humanitarian recovery and
democratisation to the local press, and supporting joint research and
other projects with regional publications and training institutions
www.talawas.org/119.html
Arundhati
Roy, Algebra of Infinite Justice: War is Peace.
www.uno.de/frieden/afghanistan/talks/agreement.htm
Agreement
on Provisional Arrangements in Afghanistan Pending the Re-establishment
of Permanent Government Institutions
www.afghan-info.com/Politics/Interim-AfghanGovt.htm
Bonn
talks: The Afghan News Administration –Interim Government
www.afghan-info.com/Politics/Hamid_Karzai_Profile.htm
Profile of
Hamid Karzai
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/afghanistan/karzai.html
Profil of the Pashtun tribal leader Hamid Karzai who was sworn in
to lead Afghanistan's interim government - the country's first official
post-Taliban ruling body
www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/AfghanLeaders/afghan_leaders_011129.subindex.html
Profiles of the new leaders of Afghanistan. Includes Hamid Karzai,
Burhanuddin Rabbani, Mohammed Fahim, Rashid Dostum, and Ismail Khan.
From ABCNews
www.afghan-web.com/bios/today/brabbani.html
More information about Burrhan ul-Din Rabani, the former president of
the Islamic State of Afghanistan and political leader of the Northern
Alliance
www.afghancriminals.com/members.htm
Profiles of the different Afghan leaders of the past and present
www.cacianalyst.org/2002-01-30/20020130_DEALING_WITH_WARLORDS.htm
Dealing with warlords
www.afghan-info.com/Politics/Afghan_Mujaheedin/DOSTUM.HTM
Profile of the leader of the Northern Provinces in Afghanistan
www.news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1563000/1563344.stm
Biography of the leader of Afghanistan's minority Uzbek community,
from the BBC
www.fallenmartyrs.com/afghanistan.htm
A tribute to Ahmad Shah Masood
www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/1358/
Information on Massoud’s conflict against the Taliban-led
government of Afghanistan
www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/massoud.html
Transcript of an interview with Massoud by CNN
www.afghanradio.com/masoud5.htm
Speech by Massoud made through the United States Senate Committee
on Foreign Relations at a 1998 hearing on events in Afghanistan
www.viceland.com/issues/v8n8/htdocs/afghanistan.php
Article which describes the charisma, eloquence, vision, and
leadership style of the Northern Alliance leader assassinated two days
prior the WTC and Pentagon attacks
www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/background/taliban.html
The Taliban: information, news reports, and videos on the Taliban,
Afghanistan's fundamentalist leaders.
www.washington-report.org/backissues/0498/9804047.html
Special report on Taliban by Musa M.Maroofi, 1998
www.news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_144000/144382.stm
Who are the Taliban – BBC analysis
www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/background/wtc_northernalliance.html
The Afghanistan Islamic rebel faction actively and belligerently
opposing its country's Taliban regime.
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/july-dec96/afghan_background_10-9.html
Coverage of the Taliban's coming to power in Afghanistan in 1996
www.kashmir-information.com/Afghanistan/
The political role of Afghanistan in the area with profiles of
Afghan Mujahideen and report on the new Islamist national
www.eoslifework.co.uk/du2012.htm
Depleted
Uranium weapons in 2001-2002, Occupational, public and environmental
health issues, Mystery Metal Nightmare in Afghanistan? Collected studies
and public domain sources compiled by Dai Williams, 31 January 2002
www.mondediplo.com/2002/03/03uranium
The United
States loudly and proudly boasted this month of its new bomb currently
being used against al-Qaida hold-outs in Afghanistan; it sucks the air
from underground installations, suffocating those within. The US has
also admitted that it has used depleted uranium weaponry over the last
decade against bunkers in Iraq, Kosovo, and now Afghanistan.
www.geocities.com/tokyo/ginza/3231
Afghanistan Liberation Organization (ALO), Marxist-Leninst organization
which struggles for the cause of communism.
www.afghan-web.com/politics/
Directory of politics sites
www.afghan-politics.org
The Online Center for Afghan Studies
www.afghanistan.org/
More about Afghanistan Peace Organization
www.afghana.com/Directories/SovietWar.htm
Includes links about the Soviet war, mine clearing programs,
refugee information, and more
www.bdg.minsk.by/cegi/N2/Afg/Waraf.htm
Strategic analysis of Soviet and Afghanistan war by General
Mohammad Yahya Nawroz and LTC Lester W. Grau
www.afghanistanvoice.org/
Association for peace and democracy
www.usaid.gov/about/afghanistan/
USAID –
Humanitarian Crisis in Central Asia
www.amnesty.org
Website of
Amnesty International
www.amnesty.org/ailib/countries/indx311.htm
Contains texts of annual reports of Amnesty International
www.hrw.org
Human Rights Watch website
www.hrw.org/pubweb/Webcat-03.htm#P387_78824
Features 1999 and 2000 entries and reports on the massacres of
Hazaras and the massacre in Mazar-I Sharif
www.hrw.org/reports/2001/afghanistan/
Report documenting two massacres committed by Taliban forces in the
central highlands of Afghanistan, in Jan 2001 and May 2000. From Human
Rights Watch, Feb 2001
www.hrw.org/reports/2001/afghan2/
Describes the role of Pakistan, Russia, and Iran in fueling the civil
war. From Human Rights Watch
www.hrw.org/press/2002/03/pashtuntestimony.htm
Anti-Pashtun Violence in Northern Afghanistan: Recent Testimonies
www.-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/middle_east/kakar/
The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979 – 1982; full text
of book by M. Hassan Kakar. From the University of California Press
www-cgsc.army.mil/milrev/english/novdec97/grau.htm
Discusses the Soviet experience in Afghanistan as an example of a
modern force which was seriously hampered by disease and poor field
sanitation
www.news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1856000/1856148.stm
BBC News report on the March 2002 Operation Anaconda, an offensive into
the mountains and caves of eastern Afghanistan
www.news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1585000/1585636.stm
Full text of Osama Bin Laden's appearance on Al Jazeera television where
he offered a strongly-worded warning to the United States about military
intervention in Afghanistan
www.usembassy.state.gov/afghanistan/wwwhtr01.html
US Fact Sheet on Osama bin Laden - distributed by the Defense
Department August 20, 1998
www.asiasource.org/policy/keesings/afghanistan.cfm
Old profile of the previous governments in Afghanistan
www.asrejadid.org/
Publication of Afghanistan's communists
www.cpj.org/Briefings/Taliban/Taliban15dec99.html
Article on press freedom by Masood Farivar
www.channel4.com/plus/afghanistan/
Beneath the Veil: companion to journalist Saira Shah's documentary
of a journey from the refugee camps of Pakistan into Afghanistan, her
ancestral homeland
www.fas.harvard.edu/~casww/
Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, W. China, Georgia, N. Iran, Kazakstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia (Muslim & Turkic Regions), Tajikistan &
Uzbekistan
www./monkeyfist.com/articles/800/
Civilian casualties in Afghanistan - the toll of the War on
Terrorism
www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/04/24/taleban.profile/index.html
CNN: The Taliban regime and its UN battle - archive of related stories,
as well as an examination of current Taliban rulings and the origins of
the party
www.fotw.net/flags/af.html
Flags of Afghanistan
www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/afghanistan/
Information on the militia, air force, airbases, and more
www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,639136,00.html
Life in Camp X-Ray: The Guardian examines the reported conditions in the
detention center
www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,556937,00.html
Zahir Shah says he wants to free his people and wants to lead a
transitional government should the US succeed in overthrowing the
Taliban
www.news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1559000/1559318.stm
BBC News article explaining that Afghanistan's former monarch could
play a major role in a future settlement for the country
www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/aerodrome/1193/id35.htm
Zahir Shah - collection of articles about the Afghan monarch and
his exile
www.feer.com/articles/2001/0112_20/p022region.html
Article from the Far Eastern Economic Review that argues that
Karzai, being neither a warlord nor a career politician, may be just
what the country needs.
www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,615225,00.html
Special report from Guardian Unlimited about Hamid Karzai
www.usembassy.state.gov/afghanistan/wwwhussd.html
U.S.
Department of State covering human rights practices, religious freedom,
international narcotics control strategy, and women and girls in
Afghanistan
www.hezb-e-islami.org/
Hezb-e-Islami – Political Party
www.marxist.com/S11_attack_special.asp
News and analysis of the September 11 attacks and the build up to
the war in Afghanistan from a socialist point of view
www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba2000-08-09.htm
Interview with the Pakistani journalist
Ahmed
Rashid who has reported from inside
Afghanistan for decades
www.rnw.nl/humanrights/afghanistan/html/rashid001213.html
Interview with the Central Asia correspondent for the Far Eastern
Economic Review and The Times of London
www.institute-for-afghan-studies.org/
Institute for Afghan Studies, a non-profit, independent
organization promoting research on social, economic, political, and
other Afghanistan-related issues
www.cnn.com/2001/COMMUNITY/08/24/shah/
Saira Shah: chat transcript from August 2001 with the freelance
journalist who created the documentary "Beneath the Veil"
www.lawguru.com/ilawlib/250.htm
Internet
Law Library by courtesy of the United States House of Representatives
Law Revision Counsel
www.copi.com/articles/missiles.html
Copy of a 1995 letter from Rodney Stich to members of Congress that
details how Afghani rebels attempted to return 30 to 40 Stinger missiles
to the U.S. but were turned down
www.archive.nandotimes.com/nt/images/cruise.html
Graphic showing U.S. retaliation against Afghanistan and Sudan for
the 1998 embassy bombings
www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/interrogatory101501b.shtml
Interview with Robert P. George discussing the ideas of just war
theory and the war in Afghanistan
www.zmag.org/kingsolver.htm
October 14, 2001 article – No Glory in Unjust War on the Weak - by
Barbara Kingsolver decrying the bombings on Afghanistan in response to
the September terrorist attacks
www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/jan/justwar/020125.justwar.html
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