See also:

• Society: Issues: Human Rights and Liberties  (838)

All Our Hopes are Crushed: Violence and Repression in Western Afghanistan - - Report by Human Rights Watch. Documents widespread abuses in the areas of western Afghanistan controlled by Ismail Khan and in the city of Herat.

Amnesty International: Afghanistan - - Human rights reports and news, from 1997 to the present, about the country's people and refugees.

Human Rights in Afghanistan - - Derechos presents information and links on human rights in Afghanistan.

Human Rights Watch - Afghanistan - - Reports, background briefings, testimony, press releases and commentary on the human rights situation in the country.

Human Rights Watch: Afghanistan - - Reports on current concerns including war casualties among Afghan civilians, the use of cluster bombs, and the rights of prisoners of war.

The Taliban and Afghan Women - - The Feminist Majority Foundation campaign to assist women in Afghanistan describes the elimination of Women's rights and the humanitarian crisis.

Thousands held by US-led forces - - A senior American official says some 7,000 Taleban and al-Qaeda members are being held prisoner after the collapse of the Taleban.

Paying for the Taliban's Crimes - - Human Rights Watch reports on abuses against ethnic Pashtuns in Northern Afghanistan. (April 1, 2002)

British al-Qaida suspects disappear - - Dozens of Taliban and al-Qaida suspects have disappeared from jails in Kabul and are beyond the reach of human rights monitors and diplomats. (January 9, 2002)

Kabul's Lost Women - - The Washington Post reports that many women and girls abducted by the Taliban are still missing. (December 18, 2001)

Guardian: Behind the Burka - - Polly Toynbee. "With such a dearth of satisfactory allies, the coalition should turn to one Afghan group completely ignored so far - the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan." (September 28, 2001)

CNN: Life in Afghanistan under the Taliban - - Freelance journalist Saira Shah on an undercover, under-burqa project captures the totalitarian brutality of Taliban rule on film. (August 27, 2001)

Afghanistan: The Massacre In Mazar-I Sharif - - A report from Human Rights Watch on the August massacre of civilians by Taliban troops in Mazar-i Sharif. (November, 1998)