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All Our Hopes are Crushed: Violence and Repression in Western Afghanistan - Report by Human Rights Watch. Documents widespread abuses in the areas of western Afghanistan controlled by Ismail Khan and in the city of Herat.
Amnesty International: Afghanistan - Human rights reports and news, from 1997 to the present, about the country's people and refugees.
Human Rights in Afghanistan - Derechos presents information and links on human rights in Afghanistan.
Human Rights Watch - Afghanistan - Reports, background briefings, testimony, press releases and commentary on the human rights situation in the country.
Human Rights Watch: Afghanistan - Reports on current concerns including war casualties among Afghan civilians, the use of cluster bombs, and the rights of prisoners of war.
The Taliban and Afghan Women - The Feminist Majority Foundation campaign to assist women in Afghanistan describes the elimination of Women's rights and the humanitarian crisis.
Thousands held by US-led forces - A senior American official says some 7,000 Taleban and al-Qaeda members are being held prisoner after the collapse of the Taleban.
Paying for the Taliban's Crimes - Human Rights Watch reports on abuses against ethnic Pashtuns in Northern Afghanistan. (April 1, 2002)
British al-Qaida suspects disappear - Dozens of Taliban and al-Qaida suspects have disappeared from jails in Kabul and are beyond the reach of human rights monitors and diplomats. (January 9, 2002)
Kabul's Lost Women - The Washington Post reports that many women and girls abducted by the Taliban are still missing. (December 18, 2001)
Guardian: Behind the Burka - Polly Toynbee. "With such a dearth of satisfactory allies, the coalition should turn to one Afghan group completely ignored so far - the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan." (September 28, 2001)
CNN: Life in Afghanistan under the Taliban - Freelance journalist Saira Shah on an undercover, under-burqa project captures the totalitarian brutality of Taliban rule on film. (August 27, 2001)
Afghanistan: The Massacre In Mazar-I Sharif - A report from Human Rights Watch on the August massacre of civilians by Taliban troops in Mazar-i Sharif. (November, 1998) Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.