Human Rights Society and Culture Afghanistan

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• - The Feminist Majority Foundation campaign to assist women in Afghanistan describes the elimination of Women's rights and the humanitarian crisis.
  
• - Freelance journalist Saira Shah on an undercover, under-burqa project captures the totalitarian brutality of Taliban rule on film.
  
• - A senior American official says some 7,000 Taleban and al-Qaeda members are being held prisoner after the collapse of the Taleban.
  
• - Dozens of Taliban and al-Qaida suspects have disappeared from jails in Kabul and are beyond the reach of human rights monitors and diplomats.
  
• - The Washington Post reports that many women and girls abducted by the Taliban are still missing.
  
• - Human rights reports and news, from 1997 to the present, about the country's people and refugees.
  
• - Report by Human Rights Watch. Documents widespread abuses in the areas of western Afghanistan controlled by Ismail Khan and in the city of Herat.
  
• - Polly Toynbee. "With such a dearth of satisfactory allies, the coalition should turn to one Afghan group completely ignored so far - the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan."
  
• - Derechos presents information and links on human rights in Afghanistan.
  
• - Reports on current concerns including war casualties among Afghan civilians, the use of cluster bombs, and the rights of prisoners of war.
  
• - Human Rights Watch reports on abuses against ethnic Pashtuns in Northern Afghanistan.
  
• - A report from Human Rights Watch on the August massacre of civilians by Taliban troops in Mazar-i Sharif.