Stephen de Tarczynski, IPS News. July 17, 2009. "The situation is like hell in most of the provinces," says Malalai Joya. "Women haven't gained even the limited rights they had in the 70s and 80s."
Agence France Presse July 17, 2009. A Taliban bomb attack killed 11 civilians, including children and toddlers, going to a shrine in Afghanistan on Friday, police said following a surge of attacks ahead of key elections.
Robert Greenwald, Brave New Foundation AlterNet: World. July 8, 2009. Brave New Foundation explores the disproportionate hardships of war on women and their families, and how you can help.
Jerome Starkey, Independent UK. May 13, 2009. The incident is the third attack on a girls' school in three weeks, raising fears about increasingly vicious methods to terrorize girls.
Institute for War and Peace ReportingApril 17, 2009. The U.S. military insists forces stormed a militant stronghold in Kunduz. But locals, including the mayor, strongly dispute this version of events.
