Human rights

LASHKARGAH (PAN): One policeman has been killed and four others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a police check post in Marjah district of the

KABUL’s continuing plight, including murder, rape and summary execution. The independent watchdog attributed the worrying situation to limited access to education, the government’s failure to

KABUL, asking the government to check the menace. The AIHRC said the immoral practice was widespread and increasingly becoming a tradition involving powerful men. The

KABUL): An influential human rights group on Wednesday called on the Karzai administration to repeal recent amnesty and election laws preventing the Independent Electoral Complaints

KABUL Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Thursday strongly condemned mass killings under the communist regime in the 1970s, saying it had been delivered death

KABUL (PAN): A large number of people coming all the way from central Uruzgan province staged a protest rally in Kabul on Monday, calling for

KABUL legal protection from domestic violence. A new draft of the criminal procedure code is currently being considered by the lower house of the parliament,

KABUL Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) member Abdul Rahman Hotak. President Hamid Karzai recently appointed Hotak, who has voiced opposition to the Elimination of Violence

KABUL Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) chief on Monday acknowledged fresh appointments to the watchdog did not meet the UN-set conditions and qualifications for the

KABUL’s most important human rights body having “little or no record defending human rights”. Karzai’s appointment of a weakly qualified human rights commission with little

KABUL Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Sunday asked the government to release the findings of investigations into honour killings and rape cases and amend

PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): The provincial council chief was among more than a dozen people killed in a suicide attack that left another 10 people wounded in