Afghanistan and the US: selected internet resources

Afghan refugees near Pakistan
(World Press Review, Sept. 2002)

Afghanistan and the US:
selected internet resources

General information on Afghanistan and the region

Afghanistan maps (countrywide, urban, ethnic and historical) courtesy of the University of Texas library
Afghanistan political and environmental maps, courtesy of international relief organizations
Afghanistan's government website
Afghanistan online
American Institute for Afghan Studies, a consortium of universities and educational institutions from around the globe
Asia Society's Afghanistan Profile, a summary of economic and population statistics
Asian Studies Virtual Library, listing scholarly resources on all Asian countries
Center for Economic and Social Rights: fact sheets on economics, human rights, and history in Afghanistan
CIA World Factbook on Afghanistan
Council on Foreign Relations on Afghanistan
Nautilus Institute's Special Policy Forum on the effects of 9/11 on South Asia.
Nuclear Issues in India and Pakistan: Selected Internet Resources links to sites concerning nuclear issues in the region
Pakistani government press releases
Project on Defense Alternatives "War Report," a compendium of news and analysis on Afghanistan and the region
Rebuild Afghanistan, a bulletin board of opportunities to help Afghanistan.
Relief Web: Afghanistan contains up-to-the minute reports on refugee and humanitarian issues in Afghanistan.
SARAI: South Asia Virtual Library, a compendium of scholarly resources including online journals, newspapers, texts
United Nation's Development Program, includes materials on rebuilding Afghanistan's urban centers, promoting food security, sustainable agriculture, and helping disabled Afghans
United Nation's High Commissioner for Refugees update on Afghanistan, includes links to recent reports on refugee populations and movements, as well as a form to make donations to refugee programs
Some United Nations treaties on Afghanstan
US Department of State page on Afghanistan
US Representative Barbara Lee (D-Oakland, CA), who cast the only vote against military action against Afghanistan
US President George W. Bush's address to Congress about US policy toward Afghanistan (September 21, 2001)
World Bank's data and reports o n population, environment, economic, technology and development statistics for Afghanistan, as well as its Country in Brief
WWW Virtual Library on Afghanistan's history

Rebuilding Afghanistan

Afghanistan Energy Information Center, includes information about power and fuel issues, renewable energy
Rebuild Afghanistan, a bulletin board of opportunities to help Afghanistan
Narcotics Interdiction in Afghanistan and Central Asia, a report from the Open Society Institute, 2002
Science Consortium to rebuild Afghanistan's agricultural capabilities
United Nations & Afghanistan: current news
United Nation's Development Programme: Afghanistan Recovery
U.S. Dept of State: Focus on Afghanistan
Women's leadership role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan, a UN site linking to important documents such as the Brussels Roundtable and the National Afghan Women's Consultation

Political parties & leadership

Afgha.com, French site containing news and discussion
Interview with Hamid Karsai from MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour
Interview with the Northern Alliance's Ahmadshah Massoud in Omaid Weekly, June 2001
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan includes documents, photographs, movie clips on the situation of women

Research & analysis

The Algebra of Infinite Justice by Arundati Roy, The Guardian
Children devastated by war: Afghanistan's lost generation, by Amnesty Intl.
Don't Bomb Afghanistan by Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus
A dossier on civilian victims of US aerial bombing of Afghanistan (includes civilian death count) by Professor Marc W. Herold, Univ.of New Hampshire
Foreign Policy and Relations with the Muslim World, MSNBC interview with Noam Chomsky
Limbs of No Body: the World's Indifference to the Afghan Tragedy by filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, The Iranian
Operation Enduring Freedom: Why a Higher Rate of Civilian
Bombing Casualties, by Carl Conetta, Project on Defense Alternatives
A series of articles by salon.com on Osama bin Laden and al-Qa'ida
Strange Victory: A critical appraisal of Operation Enduring Freedom and the Afghanistan war by Carl Conetta, Project on Defense Alternatives
The War In Afghanistan, by Noam Chomsky (excerpts from the Lakdawala Lecture, New Delhi, India)

Human rights in Afghanistan

Amnesty International's annual human rights reports for Afghanistan and other documents can be found at this Afghanistan index
Buried Alive: Afghan Women under the Taliban, by Jan Goodman from the feminist magazine On The Issues
Falling Back to Taliban Ways with Women by Human Rights Watch (early 2003)
Human Rights Watch Afghanistan page
Humanity Denied: Systematic Violations of Women's Rights in Afghanistan (Oct 2001) by Human Rights Watch
List of restrictions imposed on Afghan women by the Taliban, courtesy of RAWA
Taliban's War on Women, a 1998 report by Physicians for Human Rights
US State Department's Report on Religious Freedom in Afghanistan, 1999
Women's Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan, based in Washington, DC

The Taliban

Background on the Taliban by the Asia Society's AsiaSource
Mullah Omar, in his own words, published in the Guardian [UK]
Pakistan, the Taliban and the US, by Ahmed Rashin of The Nation
PBS special on the Taliban, 1996
Primer on Afghanistan and the Taliban by Time
Who are the Taliban? by BBC News

Afghans in diaspora

Afghan Network, an diaspora website
Afghan-American community of the USA
Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee, a non-profit organization defending the rights of immigrants, whose site includes educational materials on Arab stereotypes, reporting procedures for hate crimes, and links to public statements by Arab countries and Arab American organizations on Afghan-US relations.
Council on American Islamic Relations
Women's Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan, based in Washington, DC

News sources & online journals covering Afghanistan

Afghan Network News
Afghanistan News from international relief organizations
Afghanistan News.net, a compendium of news coverage from Western sources
Afghanistan Online, links to mostly Western news sources
Al Jazeera, Qatar-based daily news network
Alternet, published by the US-based Alternative Press Syndicate
ABC News
BBC's South Asia section
BBC in Pashto
CNN
Counterpunch, a U.S. political newsletter
Dawn, a Pakistani English language newspaper
Democracy Now, a daily radio program from New York
Economist [UK]
EurasiaNet.org
Foreign Policy in Focus, published by the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies
Foreign Affairs
Frontier Post, published in Peshawar, Pakistan
Google news: Afghanistan
The Guardian [UK] Special Reports: Afghanistan and Pakistan
Journalism and Films of John Pilger, a British writer covering the crisis
Lemar-Aftaab Afghan Magazine, published in the SF Bay Area, focus on politics and culture
Middle East Research and Information Report, an independent US quarterly
NATO News
The International News, Pakistani English language daily paper
Omaid Weekly, Afghan journal published outside of Afghanistan
PBS' Special Report on Afghanistan
SAMAR: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection, a New York-based quarterly
South Asian Journalists' Association, includes a continuing "media roundup," a guide to covering the region, including a list of expert sources
Times of Central Asia, published in Kyrgyzstan
Times of India, daily Indian newspaper in English
Voice of America's Pashto report
Znet's page on Afghanistan

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