Violence against Women Rooted in Afghan Society: UN
30 November 2009
, 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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The Eye of the Storm: Cities in the Vortex of Afghanistan's Civil Wars
30 November 2009
Antonio Giustozzi, , 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
, 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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Pushing Alternative Crops in Afghan Opium Fight
27 November 2009
Pushing Alternative Crops in Afghan Opium Fight, Reuters, 27 November 2009
EXCERPT: "From the helicopter, you can see the empty fields of southern Afghanistan's Helmand River valley. Now comes the question: when the fields are lush again in spring, will farmers be growing opium poppy or wheat? 'This year we want to reach a minimum reduction of at least 50 percent,' said Gulab Mangal, Governor of Helmand, Afghanistan's...
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Taliban Open Northern Front in Afghanistan
27 November 2009
, The New York Times, 27 November 2009
EXCERPT: "Far from the heartland of the Taliban insurgency in the south, this once peaceful northern province was one place American and Afghan officials thought they did not have to worry about. Afghan officials cut the police force here by a third two years ago and again earlier this year. Security was left to a few thousand German peacekeepers. Only one...
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German Minister Resigns over Afghan Airstrike
27 November 2009
German Minister Resigns over Afghan Airstrike, Deutsche Welle, 27 November 2009
EXCERPT: "Germany's former defense minister Franz Josef Jung has stepped down from his cabinet position over an alleged cover-up regarding civilian deaths during a NATO airstrike in Afghanistan in September. Announcing his resignation to reporters in Berlin on Friday, Jung said he would take responsibility for any policy mistakes. 'I told Chancellor Merkel...
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Conflicted Outcomes and Values: (Neo)Liberal Peace in Central Asia and Afghanistan
27 November 2009
Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, Conflicted Outcomes and Values: (Neo)Liberal Peace in Central Asia and Afghanistan, International Peacekeeping 16.5 (November 2009): 635-651
EXCERPT: "The implementation of liberal peace in the context of both transition economies and post-conflict situations often involves policy advice from international financial institutions for rapid opening of the economic and political systems. Experience, however, shows that...
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German General Resigns Over Afghan Airstrike
26 November 2009
, The New York Times, 26 November 2009
EXCERPT: "The head of the German armed forces resigned Thursday over accusations that the military withheld information on a deadly airstrike in Afghanistan in September that killed civilians as well as insurgents. Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg told Parliament that General Wolfgang Schneiderhan, the chief of staff, as well as a senior official...
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Afghanistan National Development Strategy: First Annual Report (2008/09)
26 November 2009
, International Monetary Fund, 25 November 2009
EXCERPT: "This report presents the first narrative on progress achieved by the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in bringing the Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS) to the implementation stage. A year ago, the ANDS document was approved by the President of Afghanistan and subsequently endorsed...
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