Reports on atrocities against women and children in Afghanistan
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Title: "We Have the Promises of the World": Women's Rights in Afghanistan
Organisation: Human Rights Watch
Date: December 2009
This report details emblematic cases of ongoing rights violations in five areas: attacks on women in public life; violence against women; child and forced marriage; access to justice; and girls' access to secondary education.
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Title: Lessons in Terror: Attacks on Education in Afghanistan
Organisation: Human Rights Watch
Date: July 2006
This report documents 204 incidents of attacks on teachers, students and schools since January 2005. This reflects a sharp increase in attacks as the security situation in many parts of the country has deteriorated. Southern and southeastern Afghanistan face the most serious threats, but schools in other areas have also been attacked.
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Title: "We Want to Live as Humans": Repression of Women and Girls in Western Afghanistan
Organisation: Human Rights Watch
Date: December 2002
This report focuses on the increasingly harsh restrictions on women and girls imposed by Ismail Khan, a local governor in the west of Afghanistan who has received military and financial assistance from the United States. It concludes that women's and girls' rights in Herat had improved since the fall of the Taliban, but advances were tempered by growing government repression of social and political life.
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