Human Rights

 

Here you will find some of the issues dealing with basic human rights issues and how they affected the people in this book.

 

Free Internet Resources:

Human Rights Watch. Asia Division. "Human Rights Watch: Asia: Afghanistan." hrw.org. May 4, 2006 2006. Human Rights Watch. Accessed 4 August 2006 http://www.hrw.org/doc?t=asia&c=afghan

Human Rights Watch. Blood-Stained Hands: Past Atrocities in Kabul and Afghanistan's Legacy of Impunity. Human Rights Watch, 2005. PAIS International. Accessed 4 August 2006 http://hrw.org/reports/2005/afghanistan0605/afghanistan0605text.pdf

United Kingdom. Amnesty International. Afghanistan: Women Still Under Attack--a Systematic Failure to Protect. Amnesty International Publications, 2005. PAIS International. Accessed 4 August 2006 http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/ASA110072005ENGLISH/$File/ASA1100705.pdf

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict : Report (to Accompany Treaty Doc. 106-37). Vol. 107-4. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 2002.  Accessed 4 August 2006 http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS22089

 

Periodical Articles:

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Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission. A Call for Justice: A National Consultation on Past Human Rights Violations in Afghanistan. AIHRC: Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, 2005. PAIS International

Bazelon, Emily. "From Bagram to Abu Ghraib." Mother Jones 30.2, pp. 50-53 (2005): 56-7. PAIS International.

Morton, Andre, and Wendy A. Young. Refuge; Children Asylum Seekers Face Challenges in the United States. Vol. 20. Centre for Refugee Studies, 2002.

"Terror's Other Victims." World Press Review 49.1 (2002): 20-4. PAIS International.

 

Books:

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Girardet, Edward, Jonathan Walter, and International Centre for Humanitarian Reporting. Afghanistan. 2d ed. Geneva: Published for ICHR by Crosslines Communications Ltd., 2004.

Miles, Steven H. Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror. New York: Random House, 2006.

Power, Samantha. "A Problem from Hell" : America and the Age of Genocide. New York: Basic Books, 2002. Call Number: HV6322.7 .P69 2002