Citations with the tag: AFGHANISTAN -- Social conditions
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- Inside Afghanistan.
// Junior Scholastic; 2/8/2010, Vol. 112 Issue 11, p8No abstract available.
- Cultural and demographic risks in Afghanistan.
// Afghanistan Economic Studies; 2000, p45Provides details on the culture and demographics of Afghanistan which business executives can use to evaluate potential strategic investments in the area. Population figures; Major ethnic groups that live there; Life expectancy of its citizens; Key demographic drivers; Prevalent cultural issues...
- Members should listen to Gen. Petraeus.
McKeon, Buck // Hill; 3/15/2011, Vol. 18 Issue 35, p23In this article the author discusses the importance of the testimony of General David Howell Petraeus, commander of the U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces in Afghanistan, concerning the progress of the war effort of the American troops in such country and to understand...
- War Dispatches.
McKeon, Buck // National Journal; 12/1/2001, Vol. 33 Issue 48, p3697Presents the results of a survey conducted in November 2001 on public support to the war waged by the United States (U.S.) against terrorism. Views on the expression of the U.S. of its intentions in the war against terrorism; Confidence in the plan of the U.S. government; Rates of approval for...
- Life under Taliban cuts two ways.
Baldauf, Scott // Christian Science Monitor; 9/20/2001, Vol. 93 Issue 208, p1Focuses on social conditions of Afghans inside and outside Afghanistan, and the outlook for the Taliban government. Effect of the relative stability of the Taliban government on the lives of Afghans; How war has damaged the sources of income for Afghans and the socioeconomic fabric of their...
- Unpopular Afghan refugees debate stay, return home.
Baldauf, Scott // Christian Science Monitor; 12/13/2001, Vol. 94 Issue 15, p7Reports that some Afghan refugees in Pakistan, including ethnic Hazaras, are eager to return home, but fear ethnic retaliation. Belief of Sunni Muslims that killing Shiite Muslims will ensure their entry into heaven; Dangers for returning refugees, including the onset of winter and fighting...
- AFGHANISTAN: NEW BEGINNINGS?
Lancaster, Pat // Middle East; Feb2002, Issue 320, p5Focuses on the state of law and order in Afghanistan. Installation of Hamid Karzai as interim prime minister; Decline of crimes due to public executions of offenders; Lack of humanitarian assistance reaching the country.
- Limbs of No Body: The World's Indifference to the Afghan Tragedy.
Makhmalbaf, Mohsen // Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine; Nov2001, Vol. 53 Issue 6, p28Describes the moral and humanitarian account of the tragic circumstances of the Afghan people who are affected by the U.S. war against Afghanistan. Common views on Afghanistan; Issues that are commonly associated with the country; Status of the media industry in Afghanistan; Reason for the...
- CITY OF DREAMS.
Anderson, Jon Lee // New Yorker; 12/24/2001-12/31/2001, Vol. 77 Issue 41, p50Comments on the effects of the freedom from the Taliban regime in Kabul, Afghanistan. Description of the tomb of the assassinated Defense Minister of the Northern Alliance; Availability of liquor; Reaction of the citizens on foreign journalists.
- Taliban loses ground, but not its strict ways.
Zubrzycki, John // Christian Science Monitor; 8/5/97, Vol. 89 Issue 175, p1Focuses on the battle between the orthodox Islamic Taliban and opposition forces in Afghanistan. Amount of the country controlled by the Taliban; Advances made by the Northern Alliance, the largest opposition force; The vulnerability of the Taliban; Number of people who have died for the cause...
- Globalized Dark Ages Continued.
Parrenas, Juno // Lesbian News; Nov2001, Vol. 27 Issue 4, p29Comments on the article on New York Times and the Guardian about the Taliban military and anti-Taliban forces conditions. Retrospection of the events to British colonial domination; Consideration of oneself as lucky; Privilege to criticize against war; Criticisms against the war in Afghanistan;...
- Acceptance of `step-by-step' reconciliation welcomed.
Parrenas, Juno // United Nations Chronicle; Mar95, Vol. 32 Issue 1, p37Reports that the United Nations Security Council has welcomed the move by warring Afghan parties to a reconciliation process. Member states' concern over continuation of hostilities in Afghanistan; Key to progress in Afghanistan.
- The War Against Women in Afghanistan.
Parrenas, Juno // Women's International Network News; Spring99, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p80Reports on the impact of the conflict in Afghanistan on women. Speculations on the number of women killed in the war; Losses suffered by displaced women; Prohibitions related to women under edict issued by the Taliban in October 1996; Exclusion of women from civil society; Struggles between...
- WARRING ETHICS.
Parrenas, Juno // Commonweal; 12/21/2001, Vol. 128 Issue 22, p6Focuses on the war in Afghanistan between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance. Description of the conflicts in the cities of Mazar-e-Sharif and Kandahar; Treatment of surrendering Taliban warriors; Ethical aspects of the war.
- Reconstructing Afghanistan.
Krain, Benjamin // Nieman Reports; Spring2007, Vol. 61 Issue 1, p11A photo essay which documents the devastation caused by war and the social conditions in Afghanistan is presented.
- The country that has declared all-out war on women.
Krain, Benjamin // Glamour; Jan99, Vol. 97 Issue 1, p106Editorial. Discusses the plight of women in Afghanistan under the regime of the Islamic group Taliban. Abuses against women; Increase in infant and maternal mortality; How to help the Afghan women.
- PUSH SOON FOR PASHTUNS.
Krain, Benjamin // Christian Science Monitor; 11/26/2001, Vol. 94 Issue 2, p8Editorial. Discusses the outlook for Pashtuns in Afghanistan, and their involvement in terrorism and Al Qaeda.
- Tyranny of the Taliban.
Amanpour, Christiane // Time International (South Pacific Edition); 10/13/97, Issue 41, p50Describes the rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan as of October 13, 1997. Objections against Taliban's treatment of women; Brief history of Taliban rule; Taliban's extremist interpretation of Islam; Unsettled security situation; Goal to eradicate women from public life; Lack of medical care for...
- UNVEILED THREAT.
Mulrine, Anna // U.S. News & World Report; 10/15/2001, Vol. 131 Issue 15, p32Discusses the role of the Taliban in Afghanistan in the oppression of Afghan women. Laws governing the behavior of women in Afghanistan; Role of Afghan women during the occupation of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union; History of the perception of women by Islam; Belief of many women in...
- The tales of the donkey-men.
Fang, Bay // U.S. News & World Report; 11/19/2001, Vol. 131 Issue 21, p19Reports that Taliban troops in Afghanistan are seizing roaming traders, known as donkey-men, and using them as human shields and forced laborers. Example of Rahimullah, a donkey-man who was forced to dig trenches on the Taliban front lines during United States bombing raids; Role of the...
- Liberation Day.
Ozernoy, Ilana // U.S. News & World Report; 11/26/2001, Vol. 131 Issue 22, p30Reports on the way that Afghanistan people celebrated their freedom after their liberation from the Taliban in Kabul. How some people looted the compound of the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, the religious police; Way that music was played, which was formerly...
- Afghan women find new hope.
Roane, Kit R.; Ozernoy, Ilana // U.S. News & World Report; 12/3/2001, Vol. 131 Issue 23, p22Discusses how life has changed for the women of Afghanistan since the Taliban have left. New found hope for their future; Their return to the work force; Background on the burka, a garment that shrouded women; Challenges women continue to face in education, jobs and freedom; Little movement...
- Don't Give Up on Afghanistan.
Hosseini, khaled // Bulletin with Newsweek; 12/11/2007, Vol. 125 Issue 6599, p66A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of observing the social conditions in Afghanistan during his travel.
- Fundamental Violations Reported.
Mitchell, Penni // Herizons; Fall2002, Vol. 16 Issue 2, p6Reports that women in Afghanistan endure terror at the hands of the warlords or Mujahideen of the Northern Alliance despite Taliban's official departure in Afghanistan. Stress on women benefit after the invasion of the U.S.-led forces in the country; Status of the women's ministry and female...
- Afghani human rights in danger.
Coday, Dennis // National Catholic Reporter; 9/19/2003, Vol. 39 Issue 40, p9Reports on the human rights problems presented in the drafting of the Afghani constitution under the influence of Islamists as reported by members of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Concerns of the members regarding the drafting of the constitution.
- Speaking From Behind the Veil.
Ray, Diana // Insight on the News; 12/24/2001, Vol. 17 Issue 48, p20Deals with the misconceptions of Westerners on the condition of women under the Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Weakness in the international aid and development programs in Afghanistan; Different views of women on education; Description of purdah.
- Operation Enduring Freedom.
Ray, Diana // Soldiers; Oct2002, Vol. 57 Issue 10, p10Reports on developments related to the U.S. military's Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan as of October 2002. Discovery of ammunition caches and weapons in caves in eastern Afghanistan; Community relations projects.
- IN SEARCH OF AFGHANISTAN.
Ajami, Fouad // Film Comment; Jan/Feb2002, Vol. 38 Issue 1, p22Focuses on the depiction of life in Afghanistan during the Taliban regime in the film 'Kandahar,' directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Description of the country's landscape; Key characters in the film; Makhmalbaf's use of metaphorical figures.
- Law and disorder in Kabul.
Fang, Bay // U.S. News & World Report; 4/22/2002, Vol. 132 Issue 13, p29Discusses the efforts of international troops to establish a professional police force in Kabul, Afghanistan. Handling of crime by the force; Outlook for the prevention of terrorism by the police; Role of the International Security Assistance Force in the training of Afghan police forces; Law...
- What's Hard to Look At.
Stengel, Richard // Time; 8/9/2010, Vol. 176 Issue 6, p4An introduction is presented to the article on women in Afghanistan published in this issue and an explanation is presented of the publication's magazine cover, a photograph of a young woman in that country mutilated by the Taliban.
- That panicky feeling.
LeVine, Steve // Bulletin with Newsweek; 06/10/97, Vol. 116 Issue 6075, p52Discusses the civil war in Afghanistan as of June 10, 1997. The fear felt by Afghan neighbor Uzbekistan; Fighting in the city of Mazar-e Sharif; The efforts of the Taliban, the religious army that controls more than two-thirds of the country; How the residents of Mazar-e Sharif, behind Malik...
- What's Hard to Look At.
Stengel, Richard // Time International (Atlantic Edition); 8/9/2010, Vol. 176 Issue 6, p2An introduction is presented to the article on women in Afghanistan published in this issue and an explanation is presented of the publication's magazine cover, a photograph of a young woman in that country mutilated by the Taliban.
- First steps.
Aziz, Christine // New Internationalist; Sep97, Issue 294, p26Reports on the social conditions of the people of Afghanistan, and considers the devastation brought about by the landmines explosions. Reference to the impact a landmine accident had on the life of an Afghanistan woman called Shimjan; Information on a survey conducted on landmines by the...
- Taliban sentences Afghan cultural riches to dust.
Aziz, Christine // Christian Science Monitor; 2/28/2001, Vol. 93 Issue 65, p9Reports on the threat of the Afganistan Taliban to destroy all statues in the country that are considered un-Islamic. Outlook for the destruction of a famous pair of Buddhas carved into a cliff face at Bamiyan; Public reaction to the threat; Outlook for sites of cultural significance in Afganistan.
- Taleban lose key town.
Aziz, Christine // MEED: Middle East Economic Digest; 10/30/1998, Vol. 42 Issue 44, p9Reports on the military defeat suffered by the Taleban militia movement in Afghanistan at the hands of Mujaheddin commander Ahmad Shah Masood. Information on the northeastern town of Taloqan, which was taken by Masood from the Taleban in October 1998; Information on the Taleban.
- One Hope Less for the Women of Kabul.
Aziz, Christine // Newsweek (Atlantic Edition); 07/24/2000, Vol. 136 Issue 4, p56Focuses on the treatment of Mary MacMakin, a veteran United States relief worker who was living in Afghanistan. Description of her work helping war widows and their children; Details of her arrest by the Taliban on charges of spying and attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity; Her...
- The Doors Are Closed.
Hussain, Zahid // Newsweek (Atlantic Edition); 12/11/2000, Vol. 136 Issue 24, p39Focuses on the efforts of Afghans to flee Afghanistan because of governmental attacks on rebels in the northeastern province of Baghlan, as of December 2000. Escape to refugee camps in Pakistan; Decision of Pakistan's government to close its border because of its inability to handle the...
- Kabul Recaptured.
Patel, Vibhuti // Newsweek (Pacific Edition); 11/14/2005, Vol. 146 Issue 20, p6The article reviews the exhibition "First Light: Teaching Photography in Kabul," at the School of Visual Arts Gallery in Manhattan, New York.
- THE FALL OF THE TALIBAN.
Patel, Vibhuti // Newsweek; 11/26/2001, Vol. 138 Issue 22, p22Presents photographs from the defeat of the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan by United States and Northern Alliance forces. Flight of the Taliban from the city; Welcome of the allied troops by the citizens of Kabul.
- One Hope Less for the Women of Kabul.
Patel, Vibhuti // Newsweek (Pacific Edition); 07/24/2000, Vol. 136 Issue 4, p18Focuses on the treatment of Mary MacMakin, a veteran United States relief worker who was living in Afghanistan. Description of her work helping war widows and their children; Details of her arrest by the Taliban on charges of spying and attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity; Her...
- The Doors Are Closed.
Hussain, Zahid // Newsweek (Pacific Edition); 12/11/2000, Vol. 136 Issue 24, p35Focuses on the efforts of Afghans to flee Afghanistan because of governmental attacks on rebels in the northeastern province of Baghlan, as of December 2000. Escape to refugee camps in Pakistan; Decision of Pakistan's government to close its border because of its inability to handle the...
- Kabul Recaptured.
Patel, Vibhuti // Newsweek (Atlantic Edition); 11/14/2005, Vol. 146 Issue 20, p8The article reviews the exhibition "First Light: Teaching Photography in Kabul," at the School of Visual Arts Gallery in Manhattan, New York.
- When women are the enemy.
Power, Carla // Newsweek; 8/3/1998, Vol. 132 Issue 5, p37Focuses on the Afghan capital of Kabul, which is ruled by the Islamic group, Taliban. The Taliban fighting a war against rival militias and against urban godlessness; Women suffering most from Taliban edicts; Comments of Abdul Hakeem Mujahid, Afghanistan's ambassador to Pakistan, on order the...
- Afghans try opium-free economy.
Baldauf, Scott // Christian Science Monitor; 4/3/2001, Vol. 93 Issue 89, p1Discusses the decision of the Taliban in Afghanistan to ban the growing of opium. Replacement of opium crops with wheat; Outlook for world heroin prices; Political and social conditions in Afghanistan.
- SOCIAL OVERVIEW.
Baldauf, Scott // Afghanistan Country Review; 2003, p75Presents an overview of the social conditions and traditions in Afghanistan. Origin of the country and breakdown of the various ethnic groups; National languages and religions; Educational requirements and details of the educational system; Information for foreign visitors on cultural etiquette.
- SOCIAL OVERVIEW.
Baldauf, Scott // Afghanistan Country Review; 2004, pNPresents an overview of the social conditions and traditions in Afghanistan. Origin of the country and breakdown of the various ethnic groups; National languages and religions; Educational requirements and details of the educational system; Information for foreign visitors on cultural etiquette.
- SOCIAL OVERVIEW.
Baldauf, Scott // Afghanistan Country Review; 2006, p91Presents an overview of the social conditions and traditions in Afghanistan. Origin of the country and breakdown of the various ethnic groups; National languages and religions; Educational requirements and details of the educational system; Information for foreign visitors on cultural etiquette.
- SOCIAL OVERVIEW.
Baldauf, Scott // Afghanistan Country Review; 2008, p143Presents an overview of the social conditions and traditions in Afghanistan. Origin of the country and breakdown of the various ethnic groups; National languages and religions; Educational requirements and details of the educational system; Information for foreign visitors on cultural etiquette.
- Notes on church-state affairs: Afghanistan.
Beck, Rosalie; Hendon, David W. // Journal of Church & State; Spring94, Vol. 36 Issue 2, p417Reports on the major fight which broke out in Kabul, Afghanistan, on January 2, 1994, between President Burhauddin Rabbani's forces and armies loyal to Prime Minister Guldbuddin Hekmatyr.
- AFGHANS FLOOD BACK, BUT MONEY TRICKLES IN.
Hegland, Corine // National Journal; 7/6/2002, Vol. 34 Issue 27, p2034Focuses on the repatriation of refugees to Afghanistan in 2002. Shortage of funding for handling Afghan refugees; Difficulties faced by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Afghanistan; Obstacles to rebuilding in the country.
