Afghanistan to get Indian help in upholding human rights (Lead)
May 6th, 2011 - 8:55 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) India's apex human rights body, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), will help Afghanistan in promoting human rights, prevent trafficking of women and children and ... Read more...
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NHRC to support Afghanistan rights efforts
May 6th, 2011 - 8:14 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) will help in public sector capacity development in Afghanistan, including the development of systems for investigation of human rights ... Read more...
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Mukhtaran gangrape accused’s acquittal seen as setback to women’s rights in Pakistan
April 22nd, 2011 - 1:37 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, April 22(ANI): The acquittal of five of the six accused in the Mukhtaran Mai gangrape case by Pakistan's Supreme Court is being seen as a setback to women's rights in the ... Read more...
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NATO troops kill Afghan President Karzai’s cousin during operation
March 10th, 2011 - 9:44 pm ICT by BNO News
KABUL (BNO NEWS) -- Troops with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on early Thursday morning killed a cousin of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, local officials said.Afghan officials said Karzai's cousin, ... Read more...
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Over 2,700 civilians killed in Afghanistan in 2010: UN
March 9th, 2011 - 9:18 pm ICT by IANS
Kabul, March 9 (IANS) The number of civilians killed in Afghanistan rose by 15 percent to 2,777 in 2010 from a year earlier, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission ... Read more...
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Human rights groups in Afghanistan shift focus from NATO to atrocities by Taliban
February 10th, 2011 - 7:16 pm ICT by ANI
Kabul, Feb 10(ANI): Human rights groups working in war-torn Afghanistan have shifted their focus from abuses attributed to NATO forces towards those committed by Taliban insurgents.The change in attitude is prompted ... Read more...
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Afghan women still face brutal abuses, says UN report
December 10th, 2010 - 2:03 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 10 (ANI): Afghan women still reportedly suffer horrible abuses, including forced marriages, 'honour' killings and are compelled somehow or the other to take the extreme step of self-immolation.According to ... Read more...
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Afghanistan tops worldwide asylum seekers list
November 28th, 2010 - 6:34 pm ICT by ANI
Kabul, Nov 28 (ANI): Afghanistan has been named as the world's top country for asylum seekers, ahead of Iraq and Somalia, according to statistics compiled by the U.N. High Commissioner for ... Read more...
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Rights groups ask WikiLeaks to remove Afghanis’ names
August 10th, 2010 - 8:34 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Aug 10 (IANS) Several human rights groups have asked whistleblower website WikiLeaks to erase the names of Afghan civilians from the thousands of classified documents which include details of Afghanis ... Read more...
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‘Pak should immediately investigate extrajudicial executions by Army in Swat’
July 17th, 2010 - 9:31 pm ICT by ANI
New York, July 16(ANI): International non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that the Pakistani government should immediately investigate reports of summary executions, torture, and mistreatment perpetrated during counter-terrorism operations in ... Read more...
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HRW says Pak must probe extra-judicial killings in Swat
July 17th, 2010 - 4:41 pm ICT by ANI
New York, July 17 (ANI): The Pakistani government should immediately investigate reports of summary executions, torture, and mistreatment perpetrated during counterterrorism operations in the Swat valley, Human Rights Watch said on ... Read more...
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Anti-Taliban tribal militias not paying off for the US as expected
June 20th, 2010 - 12:31 pm ICT by ANI
Jalalabad (Afghanistan), June 20 (ANI): A U.S. effort to get tribes to form militias to fight off the Taliban in return for development aid is not paying off as expected, a ... Read more...
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Child Brides Flogged After Trying To Run From Forced Marriages
June 5th, 2010 - 7:13 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
June 5, (THAINDIAN NEWS) In another ghastly video being released from Afghanistan, we find two young girls being flogged for trying to run away from their aged husbands. The latest ... Read more...
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Child Brides Flogged In Afghanistan As Cops Do Not Follow Law
June 1st, 2010 - 4:59 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Kabul, Afghanistan, June 1, (THAINDIAN NEWS) In a shocking development, two Afghan girls in their teenage where whipped when they tried to get out of the marriage forced on them ... Read more...
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Afghan leaders distrust threatens American war strategy
May 13th, 2010 - 1:43 pm ICT by ANI
Jalalabad (Afghanistan), May 13 (ANI): The success of the NATO offensive in the coming weeks in Kandahar, the Taliban heartland, may well depend on whether Afghans can overcome their corrosive distrust ... Read more...
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West believes ties with antagonistic Karzai likely to become worse
April 5th, 2010 - 2:45 pm ICT by ANI
Kabul (Afghanistan), Apr.5 (ANI): Many in the West are of the view that President Hamid Karzai's antagonistic statements against NATO countries fighting on behalf of his government, could worsen the relationship."The ... Read more...
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NATO admits killing 8 Afghan schoolboys on basis of faulty intelligence
February 25th, 2010 - 4:10 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb. 25 (ANI): NATO has admitted that the killing of eight schoolboys in a night-time raid in eastern Afghanistan was carried out on the basis of faulty intelligence."Knowing what we ... Read more...
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US detention centres violated human rights: UN report
January 28th, 2010 - 12:10 pm ICT by IANS
New York, Jan 28 (IANS) Secret detention centres set up by the US at Guantanamo Bay and other places after the 9/11 terror attacks have violated basic human rights of detainees, a ... Read more...
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Ban Deplores Deadly Car Bomb Attack In Afghan Capital
August 16th, 2009 - 12:33 am ICT by admin
Via BNO NewsSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned Saturday morning's suicide car bombing in central Kabul that has reportedly killed at least seven people and injured dozens of others, days ahead of ... Read more...
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New UN report takes firm stand on women’s rights in Afghanistan
July 9th, 2009 - 1:53 pm ICT by ANI
Kabul (Afghanistan), July 9 (ANI): A new United Nations report has called for an end to the prevailing abuse against women in Afghanistan, and warned that ignoring this culture of impunity will ... Read more...
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Resentful Afghans unlikely to welcome, support government, foreign troops or Taliban
July 3rd, 2009 - 12:04 pm ICT by ANI
Lashkar Gah (Afghanistan), July 3 (ANI) Incoming American forces are likely to continue to face a hostile Afghan population, even as they seek to reverse their military losses to a resurgent ... Read more...
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Admiral Mullen refuses to rule out drone strikes in Pakistan, Afghanistan
May 19th, 2009 - 1:15 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 19 (ANI): Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, has refused to rule out unmanned drone strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan.He also said the ... Read more...
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Less than 18 percent of Afghan police aware of basic rights laws
May 1st, 2009 - 2:38 pm ICT by ANI
Ottawa, May 1 (ANI): Fewer than 20 per cent of Afghan law-enforcement officials are aware it's illegal to torture someone accused of a crime in that country, a report by a Canadian ... Read more...
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US urged not to deport Haitians
March 7th, 2009 - 3:04 am ICT by IANS
New York, March 7 (DPA) A UN human rights expert Friday called on the US not to deport undocumented Haitians as their country still hadn't recovered from the destruction caused by last ... Read more...
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Bahrain to set up independent human rights body
June 17th, 2008 - 6:20 pm ICT by IANS
Dubai, June 17 (IANS) Bahrain is going to set up a human rights body, which will be an independent entity overseeing human rights practices in that Gulf nation. The new body, to ... Read more...
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Crimes against women on rise in Pakistan
April 18th, 2008 - 11:06 am ICT by admin
By Zofeen T. Ebrahim
Karachi, April 18 (IANS) Over 4,000 cases of crimes against women were reported in Pakistan last year - more than double the figure in 2006. But rights organisations say ... Read more...
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One killed in car bomb blast in Kandahar
February 19th, 2008 - 7:40 pm ICT by admin
Kabul, Feb.19 (ANI): At least one person was killed in a car bomb explosion in Kandahar on Tuesday.
Police said the blast, the third in the city in as many days, also injured ... Read more...
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