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TOLOnews
April 21, 2018
Badakhshan activists, tribal elders and former jihadi commanders have started their own awareness campaign to encourage residents to take part in the ... should know that elections will be held once again in which talented, trustworthy and eligible individuals will be elected,” Basir Haqjo, an activist, said.
News1130
April 21, 2018
KABUL – An Afghan official says that at least six local police were killed when a group of Taliban fighters attacked and overran their checkpoint in northern ... Pot activist Jodie Emery says pot users across the country have a lot to celebrate, given it's expected to be legalized this year, but she also thinks theÃÂ ...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
April 20, 2018
Activists in the northeastern province of Takhar are warning that despite hundreds of cases of child sexual assault reported to the police each year, very few criminal investigations are ever opened. They claim that not only are the police apparently reluctant to pursue cases, but that widespread corruptionÃÂ ...
TOLOnews
April 20, 2018
A group of civil society activists and residents of Jawzjan province, in the north of Afghanistan, established a sit-in camp to support the peace ... should come and join the peace process and the civil society will help them in achieving their legal demands,” Farzin Fahimi, a civil society activist in Jawzjan, said.
TOLOnews
April 19, 2018
Meanwhile, the Japanese Ambassador to Kabul Mitsuji Suzuka said his country will give Afghanistan about $13 million USD for the elections. “One of the most important cooperation (projects) we will do this year is support the elections,” the ambassador told TOLOnews. The Afghan government hasÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
April 18, 2018
Every expert — people in the government, people in the military — all say that the occupation and the attacks by the US government and the Afghan proxies is only fueling the insurgency. They're ... The activist said that the US military's typical distinction of the seasons in Afghanistan is no longer apparent.
TOLOnews
April 8, 2018
Peace protestors once again took to the streets of Lashkargah City on Saturday carrying messages of peace to residents in the volatile southern province of Helmand. The protestors called on Afghans to join the campaign and raise their voices for peace and an end to violence. The peace convoy drove to Lashkargah'sÃÂ ...
TOLOnews
April 4, 2018
In response to the peace campaign, the Taliban demanded a ceasefire on the part of the Afghan government and the complete withdrawal of foreign forces from Helmand's Shorabak base and Kandahar Airport as a precondition for responding to peace calls by the protestors, which includes women. In an audio messageÃÂ ...
Independent Newspapers Limited
March 30, 2018
Activists are on hunger strike in Afghanistan after demands for a ceasefire, due to a massive car bomb that was ignored, said protesters on Thursday. In response to the attack on March 23, that left 20 dead and 55 others injured, hundreds of people gathered to call for a ceasefire at the site of the explosionÃÂ ...
The Siasat Daily
March 29, 2018
“Many parts of the country, including Waziristan, on its porous border with Afghanistan, have turned into safe havens for militants and terror groups. The Pakistani military has been accused of working closely with and even aiding terrorists there. To many, Pakistan is a black hole of information due to theÃÂ ...
Christian Science Monitor
March 29, 2018
March 29, 2018 Kabul, Afghanistan—The Afghan man with the long beard, white turban, and worn farmer's hands led his wife, draped all in a flowing dark blue burka, into a small office ... Human rights activists say Afghan security forces often make spurious charges, or use torture to exact confessions.
TOLOnews
March 29, 2018
The latest annual report on Afghanistan from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights found that in 2017 civil society actors, ... According to the report, “attacks against media workers and women activists by anti-government elements are indicative of the challenges faced by civil society.
New York Times
March 29, 2018
KABUL, Afghanistan — Within 24 hours of a recent suicide bombing in Helmand Province, which added at least 14 names to the long list of the dead in a bitterly contested corner of Afghanistan, a group of local activists began a sit-in at the site of the carnage. In their moment of anger and sorrow, they askedÃÂ ...
Newsweek Pakistan
March 23, 2018
The short-lived image on a concrete blast wall marked the beginning of a provocative campaign by social activist group ArtLords, whose artists are calling out Afghanistan's most powerful by depicting people killed by warlords in giant murals in public places. They have been threatened on social media,ÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
March 23, 2018
At the news conference, activists released a copy of a letter from Duckworth to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, asking her to personally review Perez's case. “Beyond the injustice that ICE has laid on Perez Montes in his deportation, I would find it shocking to learn that he will potentially beÃÂ ...
TOLOnews
March 23, 2018
Women's rights activists said violence against women has not decreased and that the types of violence committed in the last year were terrifying. They said the ... We will not see a big positive change in women's situationas long as we actually defend their rights,” women's rights activist Zahra Sepehr said.
Daily Times
March 22, 2018
Beside this, energy power, dams, roads and educational institutions were erected in parts of Afghanistan,” he concluded. The programme was attended by prominent members of the academia, students, traders and activists. Pakistani Afghan woman Deewa Bajuri especially came from Australia only toÃÂ ...
Arab News
March 21, 2018
This handout from the Afghan social activist group ArtLords taken on March 8, 2018 shows artists painting a mural of Hamida Barmaki, who, along with her husband and ... The group's artists are calling out Afghanistan's most powerful by depicting people killed by warlords in giant murals in public places.
eNCA
March 20, 2018
Barmaki's portrait was near the home of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, one of the most notorious warlords in Afghanistan's history. His group carried out the 2011 suicide attack on a Kabul supermarket that killed Barmaki -- a prominent law professor and human rights activist -- as well as her husband and their fourÃÂ ...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
March 19, 2018
Afghanistan: Women's Stories Left Untold ... Part of the issue is the failure of more conservative elements within Afghan society to embrace change, with many families frowning on the idea of ... Another activist, Mohammad Hotak, also told IWPR that female voices were needed to bring true social change.
TOLOnews
March 19, 2018
... a number of members of the National Assembly say that the Afghan government should clearly disclose the demands of the Afghan people and ways to eliminate these tensions with Pakistani officials. In this episode host Mariam Sama discusses the topic with Toryalai Gheyasi a civil society activist.
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 18, 2018
In their support, a number of Afghan civil society info-icon activists erected a protest tent in Chaman Hozori neighborhood of Kabul. The activists had asked the international community and particularly the United States (US) enlist Pakistan in UN blacklist. During Sunday's session, the Meshrano Jirga orÃÂ ...
TOLOnews
March 12, 2018
Rights activists and representatives of civil society institutions on Monday called on the Afghan government to accelerate its efforts to resolve a week-long dispute ... “Unfortunately, people in Sher Abad village were selling their water shares to the neighboring villages,” said civil society activist Ali Fakoor.
Bismarck Tribune
March 8, 2018
Land activists from Boeung Chhuk community wait to release balloons to mark International Women's Day on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, March 8, 2018. The community .... Afghan children play during an event marking International Women's Day in Kabul, Thursday, March 8, 2018.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
March 8, 2018
Officials and activists agree that social and security challenges force some female reporters to hide their true identities. ... Hosseinia Nikzad, head of the Afghan Women's Network in the west of the country, said that many female journalists felt forced to adopt pseudonyms so as to be and be accepted byÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
March 8, 2018
Eight members of a German far-right group were jailed on Wednesday on terrorism and attempted murder charges for a series of explosives attacks targeting refugees and anti-fascist activists. Based in Germany's ex-communist east, the so-called “Freital group” had sought to create “a climate of fear” at theÃÂ ...
The National
March 8, 2018
The Dubai-based humanitarian co-ordinator was speaking ahead of International Women's Day, of which one of the themes is “Activism for Rural Women” this year. From Iraq to Afghanistan to Yemen, Sudan and Northern Nigeria, the 42-year-old activist and author has facilitated projects from saving lives,ÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
March 8, 2018
The theme for this year's Women's Day is 'Time Is Now: Rural and Urban Activists Transforming Women's Lives.' ... “Empowering urban and rural Afghan women is essential to reducing poverty, inequality, and violence against women,” said Toby Lanzer, acting head of the UN in Afghanistan. “As last week'sÃÂ ...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 4, 2018
A media activist, Hashmatullah, said due the nighttime suspension of telecom services meant no broadcasts. He said. “In a live program people always try to contact media officials and inform them about their problems, but unfortunately they cannot do so because telecom networks do not work at night.”.
Newburgh Gazette
March 2, 2018
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has offered a deal to the Taliban to begin peace talks at a time when "Kabul has become most unsafe place in Afghanistan", a peace activist returning from the war-torn nation told Radio Sputnik on Wednesday. "We will be ready to start talks with Pakistan and forget the bitterÃÂ ...
Progressive.org
March 2, 2018
The night before, over dinner, one of the students discussed news from his home town in Afghanistan's Wardak province about U.S. aerial attacks. ... These Afghan students have also heard about Black Lives Matter activists who have been tear gassed and beaten when they've demonstrated against policeÃÂ ...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
March 1, 2018
The renewal of night time counter-terrorism raids by Afghan special forces in the southern province of Helmand have been cautiously welcomed by local officials and activists. The tactic of entering villages at night had proved hugely controversial in the past due to high rates of civilian casualties and whatÃÂ ...
The Guardian
February 20, 2018
Orzala Ashraf Nemat, a leading women's rights activist who worked directly on cases of violence against women between 1999-2007 in Afghanistan and in refugee camps in Pakistan, said attitudes needed to change. For instance, there is a “notion that mediation is anti-women, but it's also a lasting,ÃÂ ...
TOLOnews
February 14, 2018
Women in Afghanistan on Wednesday expressed their support to the global movement One Billion Rising Revolution 2018 – under the banner of Solidarity Against the Exploitation of Women. ... On Wednesday, women's rights activists came together in the Afghan capital Kabul in support of the movement.
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
February 9, 2018
activists in northern Baghlan province have asked the government to get back usurped lands from land grabbers. The protesting activists gathered in front of the Provincial Council office and demanded the government to get back the grabbed lands. They performed land grabbing drama by distributing theÃÂ ...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
February 8, 2018
Illustrator and civil activist Hamdullah Arbab, former journalist and current women rights activist Dewa Niyazai are the two personalities fit for Pajhwok Afghan News this report. Their thoughts and activities had been impressive, felt and earned recognition among people and civil society group. Although theÃÂ ...
Channel NewsAsia
December 31, 1999
KABUL: Afghan farmer Jahantab Ahmadi sits on the ground, her baby resting in her lap, as she focuses on the university entrance exam she hopes will help her fulfil her dreams. The powerful photo, taken by a professor at Nasir Khusraw private university in central Afghanistan, has gone viral after striking aÃÂ ...
TOLOnews
December 31, 1999
Tired of the ongoing security situation in Helmand, hundreds of residents protested against the lack of security after Friday's bombing. Thumbnail. Hundreds of Helmand residents including youths and members of civil society organizations protested against the security situation in the southern province ofÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 31, 1999
Wahid Majro, a spokesman for Afghanistan's Public Health Ministry, confirmed the casualty figures that resulted from the blast in Kabul's eastern Chaman-e Hozoori district, which is near the Afghan national soccer team's Ghazi Stadium. Nasrat Rahii, a deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said theÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 31, 1999
A Face Of Victimhood Defaced In Afghanistan ... The mural in Kabul of slain human rights activist Hamida Barmaki as it was being painted. ... A group of Afghan streets artists painted a mural to pay tribute to a prominent human rights defender who was killed by Hezb-e Islami, the former militant group thatÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
Another 2018 fellow is Zarlasht Halaimzai, who came to Britain at 15 as a refugee after leaving Afghanistan when she was 11. After training in psychotherapy and counselling, she visited the Calais “Jungle” camp in France and was struck by the lack of volunteers who could speak the refugees' languages.
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
U.S.-led diplomatic efforts appear to have persuaded ousted Afghanistan provincial governor Atta Mohammad Noor to postpone this week's planned ... civil activists, our international partners and people from different walks of society to postpone our upcoming rally in Kabul," said the ousted governor.
Daily Times
February 23, 2018
In other words, those institutions meant to protect the Afghan people continue to recruit sexual predators. But where political set-ups and foreign military powers fail — civil society comes to the fore. Activists in Afghanistan have used a number of mediums to condemn corruption and misuse of authority byÃÂ ...
TOLOnews
February 22, 2018
The study illustrates Afghanistan in 4th place among 180 countries in the world. The index also highlights that the majority of countries are making little or no progress in ending corruption, “while further analysis shows journalists and activists in corrupt countries risking their lives every day in an effort to speak out”. The indexÃÂ ...
Khmer Times
February 22, 2018
KABUL (Reuters) – Activists in Afghanistan are speaking out against corruption and spreading messages of peace and social justice with murals, many painted on ... The group gets commissions from Afghan and international groups for “awareness raising and advocacy” and sells smaller artworks.
The Guardian
February 21, 2018
Orzala Ashraf Nemat, a leading women's rights activist who worked directly on cases of violence against women between 1999-2007 in Afghanistan and in refugee camps in Pakistan, said attitudes needed to change. For instance, there is a “notion that mediation is anti-women, but it's also a lasting,ÃÂ ...
TRT World
February 20, 2018
Afghan Artlords paint a message on a wall at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul on February 14, 2018. (Reuters). Activists in Afghanistan are speaking out against corruption and spreading messages of peace and social justice with murals, many painted on concrete blast walls that have risenÃÂ ...
Deccan Chronicle
February 20, 2018
Kabul (Afghanistan), Feb 20 (ANI): Activists in Afghanistan are speaking out against corruption and spreading messages of peace and social justice with paintings, many painted on concrete blast walls that were erected to ward off militant bombs. The activists call themselves the 'Artlords,' as opposed to theÃÂ ...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
February 9, 2018
activists in northern Baghlan province have asked the government to get back usurped lands from land grabbers. The protesting activists gathered in front of the Provincial Council office and demanded the government to get back the grabbed lands. They performed land grabbing drama by distributing theÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
January 29, 2018
Habib Wardak: I don't think the Afghan military is losing the war against the insurgents. It's not an easy war, it's a tough war and at the moment, one of the reasons why there is so much hype is because of the hibernation period where it's winter in rural Afghanistan, there is limited insurgent activity and theirÃÂ ...
