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HRW - Afghan Election Diary - work on Afghanistan from Human Rights Watch; BBC News - Afghan women seek death by fire - 15/11/06 - Jerome Saxby: "Afghan leader accused of bid to legalise rape" Independent 31.03.09. Human Rights Middle East Archived 2009-12-03 at the Wayback Machine; DIY Creations-Empowering Women in Afghanistan through business ...
Slavery was more common in towns and cities, because some Afghan tribal communities did not readily engage in the slave trade; according to some sources, the decentralized nature of Afghan tribes forced more urbanized areas to import slaves to fill labor shortages. Most slaves in Afghanistan had been imported from Persia and Central Asia. [11]
Bennett has served the United Nations as representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and head of the human rights components of peacekeeping operations in Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste, and South Sudan, including twice in Afghanistan (2003–2007 and 2018–2019). For a time, he was an advisor to the Afghan Independent Human Rights ...
After seeing major progress in women’s rights during the U.S. war in Afghanistan, Afghan women now face restrictions on… ‘Gender apartheid’ takes hold in Afghanistan 3 years after US ...
The Taliban have waged a systematic assault on the freedom of Afghanistan's people, including women and girls experiencing “immeasurably cruel” oppression, the U.N.'s human rights chief said ...
The United Nations’ special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan on Thursday expressed concern over the deterioration of rights in the country and called on the ruling Taliban to reverse ...
Slavery in Afghanistan (1 C, 3 P) T. Targeted killing in Afghanistan (1 C, 3 P) Terrorism in Afghanistan (6 C, 9 P) ... Pages in category "Human rights abuses in ...
In 2005 the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) reported 150 child trafficking cases to other states. Afghan boys and girls are trafficked within the country and into Iran, Pakistan and India as well as Persian gulf Arab states, where they live as slaves and are forced to prostitution and forced labor in brick kilns , carpet ...