30 November 2009

Violence against Women Rooted in Afghan Society: UN, AFP, 30 November 2009

EXCERPT: "Violence against women is widespread and deeply rooted in Afghanistan, where they are becoming less active in public life eight years after the Taliban regime collapsed, the United Nations said Monday. The world body has spearheaded a 16-day campaign to eliminate violence against women, which is due to end on December 10, the anniversary of the universal...

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30 November 2009

Antonio Giustozzi, The Eye of the Storm: Cities in the Vortex of Afghanistan's Civil Wars, LSE Development Studies Institute - Crisis States Research Centre, 30 November 2009

EXCERPT: "The relationship between the urban and rural world is examined here from the standpoint of the role of local leaders and their retinues of armed men, their impact on the cities and the impact of the cities on them. In periods of state weakness or...

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30 November 2009

Afghan Talks to Seek Path to Security Handover, Reuters, 28 November 2009

EXCERPT: "Britain will host talks on Afghanistan on Jan. 28, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Saturday, just days before U.S. President Barack Obama sets out his expansion of the war effort next week. The international conference in London, to be followed by a meeting in Kabul, will address progressively handing security to Afghan control, Brown...

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30 November 2009

Afghans Detail Detention in "Black Jail" at US Base, The New York Times, 29 November 2009

EXCERPT: "An American military detention camp in Afghanistan is still holding inmates, sometimes for weeks at a time, without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to human rights researchers and former detainees held at the site on the Bagram Air Base. The site, known to detainees as the black jail, consists...

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