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Monthly Archives: August 2004
Afghan Child Laborers Endure Pakistan’s Summer Heat, Risk of Abuse, Long Hours and Low Pay
Peshawar, Pakistan: Afghan refugees in Peshawar still live in terrible conditions. Many of them are afraid to go back to their villages inside Afghanistan because of brutal warlords and a ruined economy which has yet to be rebuilt. Jobs are not available and prices of goods are sky high. Thus many choose the hell of life as a refugee in Pakistan rather than the burning hell of Afghanistan. Continue reading
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With All Our Strength
By Anne Brodsky “Here is a testimony to RAWA – Afghanistan’s real democrats.” – Arundhati Roy With All Our Strength is the inside story of this women-led underground organization and their fight for the rights of Afghan women. Anne Brodsky, … Continue reading
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Gunmen kill two as fears mount for Afghan election
Gunmen ambushed a convoy carrying election workers into a remote Taliban stronghold, killing two and bringing to 12 the number of people slain while preparing for the landmark presidential vote. Continue reading
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Afghan aid as a military weapon
The United States and the United Kingdom are being accused of undermining the work of international humanitarian organizations in Afghanistan by misusing aid to advance their military interests. “There are times when aid agencies need the support of the military – as in Bosnia – but we are concerned about the increased involvement of the US and UK military in the provision of aid,” said Caroline Green of Oxfam International. Continue reading
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Forces that Would Rip Afghanistan Apart
Throughout its history as a field of conflict between contending empires and great powers, Afghanistan has developed a formula for survival that has helped it to keep its territorial integrity and indigenous authority system, despite its dizzying ethnic diversity and the external pressures that have been exerted on it. That formula – a weak central government allowing comprehensive power to local and regional leaders – is always vulnerable to civil war, which has been a staple of Afghan existence and threatens to break out again. Continue reading
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