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Afghans to Obama: End the Occupation
The NATO Occupation and Fundamentalism—An interview with Mariam of RAWA
Afghan journalists seek release of colleague
The US and Her Fundamentalist Stooges are the Main Human Rights Violators in Afghanistan
Afghan parliamentarians: "Women prisoners are raped in a Kabul prison"
Stop Human Catastrophe: Help Afghan Refugees!
Afghanistan: Reinstate MP Suspended for 'Insult'
Afghan assembly grants immunity for war crimes
Keeping the Light of Hope Alive (from 2006)
RAWA communiqué on Universal Human Rights Day, Dec.10, 2006
Warlords gang-rape a woman in Badakhshan
Post-Taliban Kabul blossoms for the rich
Meena among 60 Asian Heroes of Time Magazine
Sanobar, 11-years-old girl is abducted and raped by warlords
90 civilians perish in NATO air strike: Residents
Afghan women call for ousting war criminals
Karzai offers olive branch to Taliban
Protest against warlords sway in Afghanistan
Hezb-e-Islami of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has 34 members in the lower house of parliament
RAWA appeal for Child Sponsorship Program & New Orphanages
The women of Afghanistan find a leader
Photo exhibition of war-torn Bosnia and Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Bring War Criminals to Justice
Hope lives on...By Erica Ahmed
Afghanistan: A Harvest Of Despair
Afghan big freeze proves deadly
RAWA starts 2005 with an appeal for help
‘No warlords in Afghan cabinet’
Letter From Afghanistan — Painful story of the Herati shelter girls
Advocates Say More Improvements Needed for Afghan Women
A Threatened Afghanistan
Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition Presented to RAWA
War Returns with a Vengeance as Allies Fail the Afghan People
Latest from RAWA — Gloom of 28th April still dominant in Afghanistan
Afghan province bans women performers on TV, radio
AI ask international community to uphold its human rights responsibilities
RAWA Receives the 20th International Alfonso Comín Award
A Benefit compilation for RAWA produced by Steve Tobin
honorary doctorate for meritorious service to society

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Rethink Afghanistan is a ground-breaking documentary by Brave New Films that focuses on what is really happening in Afghanistan as a result of US policy.

In part 4 of the film released online on June 16, you can see the shocking reality of civilian casualties and the resulting refugee crisis.

View the short film directly at www.rethinkafghanistan.com or on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=krHV9iT20zw

WARNING: Some of the footage is graphic.

Brave New Films has partnered with RAWA to provide direct aid to the displaced people of Helmand who are living in desperate conditions in suburbs of Kabul. The plight of these people has been covered in the above clip.

Please watch this short film and make a donation to RAWA:
www.afghanwomensmission.org/help_us

RAWA Newsletter
Wednesday, 11 February, 2009

1. Obama’s Afghan War, the US Media, and the UN: the New Metric of Civilian Casualties
2. UNICEF: 24 Percent of Afghan Children Aged 7-14 are in Employment
3. Afghan woman who attempted suicide: “Self-immolation is the worst”
4. Children Among 20 Killed in Coalition Bombing Raid in Ghor Province
5. Sexual violence against children common in Afghanistan: report
6. Foreign Troops Kill Afghan Farmer in Farah, People Protest
7. Soul-Searching Following Farah Tragedy
8. AFGHANISTAN: Radio station director’s murder still unpunished two years later
9. Sharp rise in attempted illegal migration of Afghans to Europe
10. Bagram: Is it Obama’s new Guantanamo?
11. Amnesty International 2009 Human Rights Report on Afghanistan
12. Aid expert says only pennies of foreign money reaching Afghans


1- Obama’s Afghan War, the US Media, and the UN: the New Metric of Civilian Casualties

RAWA News: A tacit agreement operates between the Obama administration, the U.S corporate media, most progressive U.S. liberals, and the United Nations Assistance Mission for Afghanistan (UNAMA). All dream to a lesser or greater degree of a future social democratic paradise in Afghanistan where girls’ schools would be flourishing and small farmers exporting pomegranates. Some debate exists over the means to achieve this end. Much ado has been made during the past five months as to whether the Obama approach to Afghanistan differs or not with that of its predecessor.

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2- UNICEF: 24 Percent of Afghan Children Aged 7-14 are in Employment

IRIN: Poverty, community pressure and the low quality of education mean 25 percent of children in Afghanistan aged 7-14 are at risk of leaving school and drifting into exploitative work situations, according to a new report by a Kabul-based think-tank. The cost of education, lack of role models and family pressures were cited as reasons why children often ended up being exploited in backstreet workshops, factories or as domestic servants.

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3- Afghan woman who attempted suicide: “Self-immolation is the worst”

IRIN: Attempts to set oneself on fire (self-immolation) are an extreme reaction often practiced by desperate women who lack access to justice and protection. Anargul, 25, set herself ablaze in Herat Province, western Afghanistan, in a bid to end her misery, and ended up with burns to her chest, belly, neck, hands and face. She told IRIN about her ordeal and why her attempted suicide has worsened her plight.

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4- Children Among 20 Killed in Coalition Bombing Raid in Ghor Province

PAN: Nine children and 11 suspected Taliban insurgents were killed in a Coalition bombing raid in the northwestern Ghor province, a police officer said on Wednesday. Acting police chief Col. Zainul Abidin told Pajhwok Afghan News the airstrike by US-led forces in Shahrak district targeted dreaded Taliban commander Mullah Mustafa and his accomplices.

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5- Sexual violence against children common in Afghanistan: report

The Canadian Press: The trafficking and sexual exploitation of children in Afghanistan is a growing concern, Canada's Foreign Affairs Department was told in a confidential human-rights report prepared by senior officials. The illegal marriage of underage girls and the sexual abuse of young boys is commonplace, warned the Afghanistan Human Rights Report obtained by The Canadian Press under access-to-information laws. "Sexual violence is commonly reported but remains difficult to verify," said the partially censored review, written last summer.

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6- Foreign Troops Kill Afghan Farmer in Farah, People Protest

Quqnoos: Foreign troops gunned down a local farmer Monday in Pushtrod District of the western Farah province, an official said. The US convoy opened fire on the farmer when he war irrigating his farms early Monday morning in the district, north of the provincial capital city. Bilqees Roshan, a provincial council member said the body of the farmers is flamed.

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7- Soul-Searching Following Farah Tragedy

IWPR: America pledges to reduce price paid by civilians in war against Taliban, but disputes Afghan estimates for Farah airstrike death toll. Sayed Karim, 72, is now all alone. The elderly, white bearded man bowed his turbaned head as he told of the 13 members of his family who were killed in a May 4 airstrike by United States forces in Farah province, on Afghanistan’s western border. “I am no longer young,” he sighed. “I cannot build a new life.”

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8- AFGHANISTAN: Radio station director’s murder still unpunished two years later

Reporters Without Borders: Radio journalist Zakia Zaki’s murder two years ago tomorrow is still unpunished and her husband assures Reporters Without Borders that the lack of progress with the investigation is almost certainly due to the influence of the murder’s masterminds. The director of Sada-e-Solh (Peace Radio), Zaki was gunned down in her home in Jabalussaraj, in the northern province of Parwan, on 6 June 2007.

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9- Sharp rise in attempted illegal migration of Afghans to Europe

IRIN News: Facing unemployment, insecurity and lack of socio-economic opportunities at home, many Afghans, mostly young males, have increasingly resorted to costly and perilous illegal migration to European and other industrialized countries. Over 18,000 Afghan asylum-seekers were registered in 44 industrialized states in 2008 - a significant increase on previous years, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

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10- Bagram: Is it Obama’s new Guantanamo?

MSNBC: Should detainees the United States has shipped to the Bagram air base in Afghanistan have the same constitutional right to challenge their detention in court that prisoners at the Guantanamo prison in Cuba have been given? President Barack Obama didn't answer that question in a May 21 speech outlining his policy for dealing with alleged terrorists. In fact, Obama didn't mention Bagram at all.

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11- Amnesty International 2009 Human Rights Report on Afghanistan

Amnesty International: Millions of people living in southern and eastern Afghanistan, terrorized by the Taliban, other insurgent groups and local militias ostensibly allied with the government, suffered insecurity that further restricted their already limited access to food, health care, and schooling. Indiscriminate attacks, abductions and the targeting of civilians reached unprecedented levels. The Taliban and other anti-government groups significantly expanded their attacks to cover more than a third of the country, including areas once considered relatively safe in the centre and the north.

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12- Aid expert says only pennies of foreign money reaching Afghans

The Canadian Press: An international aid expert says only pennies from each dollar being sent to Afghanistan are actually reaching the people who need help. Marco Vicenzino says he is appalled by the inefficiency of humanitarian aid efforts. Vicenzino, who is a strategic adviser for the Afghanistan World Foundation, says about 80 cents of every dollar goes back to donor countries - largely through the contractors doing the work.

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