Afghanistan: Measuring what the occupation has done to women

29 November 2010. A World to Win News Service. Recent  reports by both human rights groups and Afghan officials indicate that violence against women in Afghanistan is on the rise and that this has been the trend since the beginning of the occupation of Afghanistan by the U.S. and other Nato countries.

A report published in April 2009 by the women's rights organisation Womankind said that 80 percent of Afghan women suffer from domestic...

The U.S.'s mercenaries in Afghanistan

1 November 2010. A World to Win News Service. The flap about President Hamid Karzai's threat to restrict the use of mercenaries in Afghanistan sheds a bright light on what the U.S. and its allies are doing in there.

In August Karzai announced that foreign security firms would be banned from operating in the country, citing the undeniable fact that the men they employ have been responsible for all sorts of murders and other atrocities. He also claimed that t...

Open Protest Letter from the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan to the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)

 (With Copies to the Participating Parties and Organizations
of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement)

The Nepalese Armed Lackeys, a Contingent of Occupying Forces in Afghanistan

The presence of Nepalese armed lackeys was seen in Afghanistan almost simultaneously when the American private security companies appeared in Afghanistan. Since then the issue has been reported in Shola Jaw...