Afghan Hindus and Sikhs have lived continuously in Jalalabad for many years. Previously there were 700 families, but now there are only 40-50. At the beginning of Jahadi's power, like the rest of our ...

The massacre of around 300 people in Yakaolang, which took place on 9th January 2001 by the Taliban, has been observed without much ado by the governments and media of the world. In a situation where ...

Having been away from my country for a long time, I recently took a trip to Kabul City, the heart of injured Afghanistan. I was a child when we had immigrated to Pakistan as refugees. I don’t remember ...

Skin lesions seen on the hands and legs of these villagers are rife in many areas. No medicine, no doctor, no NGO to help them.

As Afghanistan finds itself strangled within the grip of religious fundamentalism of all shades, human rights across the nation are being grossly violated. In fact, the present conditions are even ...

Country folk discussing the drought and their manifold problems with a RAWA member. They explain how last year, despite unfavourable conditions, they were able to harvest 15 tonnes of grain from a ...

Precious water can only be used for drinking. These luckless children have not been able to have a bath or change of clothing for months. Most rural youngsters go barefoot, wear repeatedly patched and ...

These villagers are beseeching a RAWA activist to raise their cry of agony to the outside world. "We are living in a Taliban-made inferno", they say.

A open well in Okal village. Water for drinking is ceaselessly drawn by hundreds of households everyday and hot disputes and fistfights over priority in drawing water are usual occurrences.

No school or play for these children. Their lives now revolve around the critical daily chore of fetching water from far off places. They subsist on daily handfuls of rice and it is months since they ...

Lessons, books, teachers and going to school are concepts from an alien world for these young children. As if the mediaeval restrictions imposed by the Taliban were not enough, the on-going severe ...

A RAWA member talking with village women. It is since many days that Mohammad's wife has nothing to prepare for family meals except bread and weak unsweetened tea. "I can't remember the last time ...