Afghanistan

Digital security in Afghanistan and beyond

This web page offers digital security resources to human rights defenders and other individuals involved in civil society networks in Afghanistan and Central Asia, especially. This content prepared in multiple languages used in the region (English, Dari, Pashto, and Farsi).

August 23, 2021 No Comments

Can Afghans Convince Us the Mechanism of War Is Not Effective?

Can Afghans convince us that the method of war doesn’t work? If we’re still quietly hoping that wars will end and people all over the world will get along peacefully, the dreams and demands of the Helmand Peace Convoy should

August 7, 2018 No Comments

From Afghanistan to my #Mother!, and the child in everyone

By Dr. Hakim Dear mom and fellow members of the human family, I love my 77-year-old frugal, hardworking, self-sacrificial Han Chinese Singaporean mother, so when Trump’s military/government dropped what they nicknamed the “Mother of All Bombs” (MOAB) on Achin District

May 24, 2017 No Comments

From Afghanistan to my #Mother!, and the child in everyone

By Dr. Hakim Dear mom and fellow members of the human family, I love my 77-year-old frugal, hardworking, self-sacrificial Han Chinese Singaporean mother, so when Trump’s military/government dropped what they nicknamed the “Mother of All Bombs” (MOAB) on Achin District

May 24, 2017 No Comments

I was six when the Russians came

This is a story about Farzana, translated by her daughter Zarghuna and written up by Maya Evans. When I was six, life was good; I didn’t know anything outside my mother and father’s world. In the village where I lived

February 22, 2017 No Comments

I was six when the Russians came

This is a story about Farzana, translated by her daughter Zarghuna and written up by Maya Evans. When I was six, life was good; I didn’t know anything outside my mother and father’s world. In the village where I lived

February 22, 2017 No Comments

See How We Live

Here in Kabul, I’m generally an early riser at the home of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, but I’m seldom alone. Facing exams, my young friends awaken early and then stay up late to study. Before sunrise this morning, eighteen year

December 8, 2016 No Comments

See How We Live

Here in Kabul, I’m generally an early riser at the home of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, but I’m seldom alone. Facing exams, my young friends awaken early and then stay up late to study. Before sunrise this morning, eighteen year

December 8, 2016 No Comments

Where to Turn

In July 1941, Albert Einstein, ten months a US citizen, wrote Eleanor Roosevelt asking her, as First Lady, to raise with the president the matter of lifting bureaucratic hurdles so that Jewish refugees threatened by Hitler’s final solution could be granted entry

November 13, 2016 No Comments

Where to Turn

In July 1941, Albert Einstein, ten months a US citizen, wrote Eleanor Roosevelt asking her, as First Lady, to raise with the president the matter of lifting bureaucratic hurdles so that Jewish refugees threatened by Hitler’s final solution could be granted entry

November 13, 2016 No Comments

Afghanistan

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