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Khomeini Commemorations Met With Resistance By Afghan Youth

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RFE/RL, 1 June 2012 The website of the US-financed radio reports that young Afghans had protested in Kabul against the commemoration of the anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, some of them defacing and tearing down posters of the late Iranian supreme leader.

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Kandahar schools brave harsh realities

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al-Jazeera, 25 May 2012 Our recent guest blogger Mujib Mashal has an interesting article about Kandahar province’s dire state of education. Students numbers, both male and female, are well below national average, as are high school graduates.Three district ‘never’ had a school.

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Afghanistan: ‘I Was Not Born a Slave’

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IWPR, 23 May 2012 A very gripping reportage about bonded child labour in the brick kilns of Nangrahar’s Sorkhrud district by Afghan journalist By Sayed Samiullah Sayidi, and a good follow up to the IRI report about the same issue some days ago in our ‘recommended reading’ list.

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Bonded labour ensnares entire families

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IRIN, 16 May 2012 IRIN points to a new ILO report according to which more than half of the brick kiln workers surveyed in Afghanistan were children, with most under 14. 
ost children began working at the age of seven or eight, and almost 80 percent are under 10. According to the ILO, the kilns […]

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تاريخ را آن‌گونه كه است بنويسيد! (Write the History As It Is!)

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Mandegar (Kabul), 11 February 2012 The Kabul-based daily criticises the decision of the Afghan Ministry of Education to issue new textbooks that end in 1973 and leave out all the recent wars: ‘It is not the first time that we experience false writing of history in Afghanistan. […] If you read the world history there […]

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In Afghanistan, a new approach to teaching history: Leave out the wars

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Washington Post, 5 February 2012 ‘A series of government-issued textbooks funded by the United States and several foreign aid organizations do just that, pausing history in 1973. There is no mention of the Soviet war, the mujaheddin, the Taliban or the U.S. military presence. In their efforts to promote a single national identity, Afghan leaders […]

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Ministry of Education reacts to “The Battle for the Schools”

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Afghanistan’s Ministry of Education has issued an official statement in Dari in response to AAN’s latest report “The Battle for the Schools”, in which it refutes all substance of the report, calls its findings fabricated and assures the great Afghan nation of its tireless efforts and the impeccable Islamic credentials of its curriculum. The full […]

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The Battle for Schools: The Taleban and State Education

Antonio Giustozzi • Claudio Franco •

This new AAN report by authors Antonio Giustozzi and Claudio Franco looks at the Taleban’s changing attitude towards state education. In the last two years, the Taleban have increasingly allowed schools to operate in areas under their control or influence, but this has come at a price – a more conservative curriculum and more mullahs […]

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Afghan women prisoners listen to their teacher in a class in the women's section of the Herat prison on August 16, 2009. AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI (Photo by BEHROUZ MEHRI / AFP)

Mothers behind Bars: What about the Children?

Sari Kouvo •

Growing up with few evident opportunities and with conflict constantly lurking at the door is the reality for most Afghan children and youth. A group that gets more than its fair share of brick walls and violence are the children that grow up with their mothers in prison. AAN’s Sari Kouvo and Naheed Esar Malikzay […]

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27 April 2011: First AAN Occasional Paper on Mahmud Tarzi and the Wesh Zalmian movement

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This paper of its senior Analysts Thomas Ruttig represents the opening of AAN’s new series of occasional papers. It addresses the influence of the thoughts of Afghan nationalist and moderniser Mahmud Tarzi (1865-1933), foreign minister under reformer-king Amanullah (1919-29), on Afghanistan’s 1940/50s pro-democratic opposition movement, the Wesh Zalmian (Awakened Youth). Mahmud Tarzi and the movement […]

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Young Afghans Leaving in Droves

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Institute for War and Peace Reporting, 7 January 2011 Afghan journalist Shahpoor Saber reports from Herat where young educated Afghans are leaving to make better lives for themselves abroad as they see no future for people like them in a deteriorating security climate.

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Former Guantanamo Bay adversaries visit ethics class

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Penn State University website, 23 November 2010 Former Guantanamo prosecutor and defence attorney discuss the case of Jawed, an Afghan minor who was ultimately released – after the prosecutor resigned and came out in his defence.

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