Afghanistan Human Rights News

Latest Afghanistan Human Rights News

Bin Laden's driver was aware of terrorist attacks--witness 24 Jul 2008 01:55 GMT
... in the guest house in Kandahar (in Afghanistan) and describing tactical mistakes" made in the ... The Bush administration has been blasted by human rights groups and foreign governments for holding inmates ...
Hamdan was in Osama bin Laden's inner ring, FBI witness says 24 Jul 2008 00:23 GMT
... detainees who remain locked up at Guantanamo. Human rights groups have said that the tribunals do ... and the Taliban on the battlefield in Afghanistan by transporting weapons, and that he helped ...
Birthday greetings from Guantánamo 23 Jul 2008 23:36 GMT
... the international standards of justice. Six UN human rights rapporteurs have concluded that it violates article ... studies in Pakistan, and inspired by the Afghan trauma victims he had dealt with, he ...
Dispute over evidence at center of Guantanamo trial 23 Jul 2008 22:16 GMT
... was held at a base in Bagram, Afghanistan after his capture in 2001. Allred left ... The Bush administration has been blasted by human rights groups and foreign governments for holding inmates ...
Bin Laden's driver 'knew of attacks' 23 Jul 2008 21:31 GMT
... in the guest house in Kandahar (in Afghanistan) and describing tactical mistakes" made in the ... The Bush administration has been blasted by human rights groups and foreign governments for holding inmates ...

Rights Activists Step Up Opposition to Corporate Complicity in Torture 23 Jul 2008 20:19 GMT
... Santa Clara County Supervisor Pete McHugh joined human rights and peace activists from San Jose and ... to secret prisons in Baghdad, Iraq; Kabul, Afghanistan; Islamabad, Pakistan; Amman, Jordan; Cairo, Egypt; Algiers, ... the CIA’s illegal practices. Numerous organizations, including, Amnesty International ( ), and the National Lawyers Guild ...
Bin Laden's driver was aware of terrorist attacks: witness 23 Jul 2008 20:00 GMT
... in the guest house in Kandahar (in Afghanistan) and describing tactical mistakes" made in the ... The Bush administration has been blasted by human rights groups and foreign governments for holding inmates ...
Right to Protection (R2P) from the World's Rich 23 Jul 2008 18:27 GMT
... with 45 percent of the world's people. UNICEF * Malnutrition is implicated in more than ... scheme is 27 international conventions that cover human rights, labor rights & environmental standards & preceding ... a proper trial. In the case of Afghanistan the UK has been accused of a ...
JOHN C. BERSIA: Every presidential candidate should dust off his passport 23 Jul 2008 16:54 GMT
... campaign. To those who believe that discussing Afghanistan, Iraq and trade - as important as ... third example, what does the concept of human rights mean to the United States in the ...
Walker's World: Europe's Obamania 23 Jul 2008 16:17 GMT
... Iraq, or of an American scuttle from Afghanistan, or an American abandonment of the Middle ... Obama will talk of common values, of human rights and democracy, of common approaches to global ...
150 Delegates To Attend Annual Meeting On Human Rights 23 Jul 2008 15:29 GMT
... 150 Delegates To Attend Annual Meeting On Human Rights KUALA LUMPUR, July 23 (Bernama) -- Some ... the region. She said participants would come Afghanistan, Australia, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, ...
British court rejects al-Masri extradition appeal 23 Jul 2008 15:29 GMT
... still appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. They have questioned U.S. assurances that he ... and weapons training for violent jihad in Afghanistan. They also say he assisted extremists who ...
Richardson Draws Upon Diplomacy, State Executive Experience in Run for President 23 Jul 2008 15:29 GMT
... release of political prisoners and improvement of human rights. After a return visit a month later, ... Became the first Cabinet-rank American to visit Afghanistan in 24 years. Tried to persuade the ...
Increasing attacks on aid workers could provoke "humanitarian crisis" 23 Jul 2008 14:53 GMT
... 100 local and international NGOs operating in Afghanistan, told IRIN on 21 July in Kabul. ... Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Organisation. Aid workers have increasingly been targeted ...
AFGHANISTAN: Insurgency, insecurity threaten health progress 23 Jul 2008 14:53 GMT
... Organization (WHO). Every hour at least two Afghan women die from obstetric complications and lack ... their fifth birthday, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the MoPH reported in 2008. These ...
Insurgency, insecurity threaten health progress in Afghanistan 23 Jul 2008 14:53 GMT
... Organization (WHO). Every hour at least two Afghan women die from obstetric complications and lack ... their fifth birthday, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the MoPH reported in 2008. These ...
We should boycott the Olympics 23 Jul 2008 14:16 GMT
... protest against the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. But it was the right thing to ... that we oppose their policies of denying human rights to its citizens. It would deprive the ...
The ICC's Bashir Indictment: Law Against Peace 23 Jul 2008 14:15 GMT
... Krstic was welcomed by numerous commentators and human rights organizations as an important step forward in ... of Independence, the Vietnam War and the Afghanistan War -- to name just a few ...
Constitutional reform in Turkmenistan 23 Jul 2008 12:52 GMT
... its commitment to market economics, democracy, and human rights. The new more liberal constitution, due to ... plan to wreck their economy. A humiliated Afghan president issues an emotional challenge to his ...
UK cleric loses appeal against U.S. extradition 23 Jul 2008 12:52 GMT
... to appeal -- the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, a British Home Office ... The material included a 10-volume "encyclopedia" of Afghan jihad, which prosecutor David Perry described as ...
Cleric loses battle against U.S. extradition 23 Jul 2008 12:36 GMT
... to appeal -- the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, a British Home Office ... The material included a 10-volume "encyclopedia" of Afghan jihad, which prosecutor David Perry described as ...
Bin Laden driver knew 9/11 target - prosecutor 23 Jul 2008 12:36 GMT
... al Qaeda fighters from the battlefields of Afghanistan. The war crimes tribunal system has been ... crimes tribunal system has been criticised by human rights groups and defense lawyers, some of them ...
Abu Hamza losses appeal against extradition 23 Jul 2008 11:36 GMT
... money and recruits to the Taliban in Afghanistan as well as supporting kidnappers in Yemen ... to appeal to the European court of human rights before he is extradited. ...
Civilian Risks Curbing Strikes in Afghan War 23 Jul 2008 10:30 GMT
... at 5:05 a.m. Dawn was breaking over Afghanistan one day this month as Air Force ... said Marc Garlasco, senior military analyst with Human Rights Watch. “They have very effective collateral damage ...
Militants hampering anti-polio drive 23 Jul 2008 10:19 GMT
... April this year, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned that an estimated 160,000 children in ... an incident near Mohmand Agency on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, when four vaccinators were kidnapped as ...