Inside Herat’s Female Prison (NATO in Afghanistan)

Posted by on May 8, 2015 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

After three decades of war, Afghanistan’s women still face a number of challenges. Violence, sexual assault and lack of enforcement of Afghan laws that protect them are faced by many women every day, many of whom are unaware of their own rights, as protected in the Afghan constitution. Herat is one of the more secure provinces in Afghanistan, but, like other areas, it has a number of vulnerable women. The city’s female prison holds 140 inmates. Their children often live alongside them. According to prison officials, they’re accused of various crimes, ranging from drug trafficking and murder to running away from home. “The majority of women who are sentenced to prison are accused of killings, kidnappings and unfortunately we also have 96 cases of moral crimes,” say’s Major General Shah Mir Mirpoor Some prisoners say they’ve been dealt bad justice, as their sentences are unfairly long. “I’ve been a prisoner for 10 months. At the first court, they sentenced me to six years in prison. But at the secondary court, the judge himself said six years was a lot for a woman.” Lailuma Muradi is accused of killing her husband. She claims she’s innocent, but the court disagreed and sentenced her to 18 years in prison. “I am accused of my husband’s murder. It’s been a year and two months I’ve been in here. I have been sentenced to prison for 18 years, but I did not kill my husband. Someone else killed him and fled. Then the government arrested me.” Sometimes, women who have run away from home end up in prison. Although often presented as a crime in Afghanistan, if a couple run away together, present themselves at court and apply to get married with the agreement of their families, they will both be pardoned. This woman says she ran away because she wanted to marry the man that she loved. “My crime was fleeing from home, we loved each other, but our families wouldn’t let us get married through the legal way, so we decided to run away from home, but after two days we were arrested by police.” Suraiya Sobrang is a women’s rights activist. She says this year in...

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Notes from Afghanistan: Cultural Heritage Protection

Posted by on May 2, 2015 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

I was invited to Afghanistan by the US Embassy in Kabul in tandem with the state department, and specifically they invited me to advise them on their archaeological program and especially on archaeological conservation both in Kabul and in the southern part of Afghanistan. this data cultural heritage preservation in Afghanistan is not good the country has then in the midst of the Thirty Years War they call it the Thirty Years War, starting in 1979 when the Soviets invaded continuing with the Civil War under the mujahedeen and then continuing on still with the Taliban. Ending in a sense only with the I’m with the Northern Alliance is victory over the Taliban and the entry at the United States and other UN countries into Afghanistan a few years ago, but during that period I mean even after the UN and the US entered Afghanistan not a lot of attention was focused on cultural heritage protection, on the the archaeological conservation, archaeological sites they would trying to get the economy under control and trying to get the political structure under control. Most of us have an experienced a country like Afghanistan we’re literally everything was broken and had been broken for thirty years, keep in mind there were any archaeological conservators in the country there were barely any functioning museums all love them had been hit by rockets if not during the Soviet invasion then during the Civil War or during the period at the Taliban or they have been destroyed by the Taliban plenty of monuments that dated before the Islamic conquest at the 7th century AD were judged fair game by the Taliban and they were hacked up just as they hacked up the giant Buddhas and balmy on so the monuments were in terrible terrible...

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Torn Between Two Cultures: Afghans in Europe

Posted by on May 1, 2015 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

International trips is scheduled to leave Afghanistan by the end next year, and when they do many afghans fear that is the Taliban may return. And this could result in a new wave of refugees from Afghanistan looking for a new life in the west. But the shiny concept report from Germany, living in the different culture is not always easy. 25 years old Waslat Hasrat Nazimi has been living in Germany for the past twenty years now. Their parents decided to leave Afghanistan to escape the civil war in the 1990’s. Now a prominent journalist in the German media, she says, she had witnessed an influx of Imigrance from her home land to Europe. Waslat Hasrat Nazimi say’s “Well, on one side you have the generation the first generation, who came here, and who left their home country, and who never got over. The fact that they left their home country and the prestige and the chances they had, they left everything just for the sake of security. And then, you have the younger generation. And I think that the younger generation is very torn apart between, the Afghan culture and the German culture and they, struggle to find a way in between. But for most of them, it is very hard, so they’re neither afghans no German.” What is the last balance that will advocated, then lucky enough to enter your illegally. But a large number of Afghans a risk their lives crossing borders illegally, through Pakistan, Iran, turkey and Greece. 24 years old, Baryalai Arghousi, is a classic example of an illegal immigrant. He has been living in the Asylum Seekers Dometry for six years. With the basic stipend from the German government, He is still waiting for his asylum requests to be granted. Baryalai Arghousi say’s “I take three sleeping pills every night, so I can sleep well. If I still cannot sleep, I take anti-depressant pills. This is life in Europe. In my homeland, I do not remember ever taking a pain killer but here I am living on them now.” It is estimated that there are or 100,000 afghans in Germany alone. The afghan community organizes poetry and...

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MUSEUMS COMBINE TO HELP AFGHANISTAN CULTURE

Posted by on Apr 26, 2015 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

For over three decades of war, Afghan archaeological sites in ancient monuments. Ranging from prehistoric times to the Islamic era have suffered massive destruction and systematic looting. Now both the International Council of museums in association with the British Museum. Is launching a Red List of Antiquities to the thought to be a risk in the country. Both organizations are committed to raising awareness. “The main problem is the archaeological sites that still been systematically looted and it is very difficult to place, to police all these great areas. and the robbers will come in teams and bands and its that is very difficult. The security that the money is not there to to really have high security so this that the problem remains very great unfortunately.” The list describes, many objects which protected under Afghan legislation banning the export and sale. Which most likely to be looted and traded illicitly. Experts say, it is not just the stealing a valuable objects but the damage done to historic sites that is most worrying. “If you see a real views on the site today it is nothing but potholes them a just big holes in the ground everywhere. Now this when the object are found there not to dealt with with care they are broken there, some pieces they make they may just take a head destroy the body. So i it is really very sad and want is do everything we can to try and prevent this. “ The Red List is part of an ongoing campaign to protect historic items. Campaigners say helping the Afghan people to reassemble, what remains at the history and rebuild their past is a first step towards peace. “If we, defuse this information far and wide, Because the robbers will stop robbin if there is no market. If they cannot sell their goods. If they are stopped at rest and that is one thing but then if they have no market. If their work is not going to pay off. Then they this will be one way it is up into the Red List gets the message out there and do our partners, entrepreneur, customs other police agencies....

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Pul – India’s relationship with Afghanistan

Posted by on Apr 25, 2015 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

The Obama administration has seemed to be taking a different approach, to relations with India compared to the bush administration. Why, Marvin do think that they’re taking this approach and do you think that will affect cooperation in Afghanistan. Marvin Weinbaum say’s, well it continues to be in some ways an extension as I see above the bush policy. And that is to see these countries as such as both important for American foreign policy. But not necessarily have fit closely link so, that one policy depending on other policy. Recognizing that each country has to be addressed on its own terms, and that American interest. Will vary between the two countries obviously with India that focuses heavily on the economic side with Pakistan now it is the strategic relationship involving primarily now are efforts here, in counterterrorism in Afghanistan. India does not have any troops in Afghanistan; they are training the Afghan National Army now. But do you think that the Indian government is concerned about the US withdrawal of US troops next year. Ambassador Dennis Kux say’s, well I think the Indians are very concerned about that, because it for them the nightmare scenario is for Afghanistan to fall back into the sort of situation it had a before 911. With the government with the Taliban, strong position and above all with Pakistan having a strong position, good for both India and Pakistan. Afghanistan represents a sort of proxy, where they have a sort of proxy struggle. Playing out there are some other problems over Kashmir among so many other issues and so the Indians are very concerned about that. Lisa, you mentioned the Afghanistan the strategic dialogue with India that took place with the US, Did any about touch on Afghanistan. Lisa Curtis say’s, I think, Afghanistan definitely did come up in that strategic dialogue, and I would assume that India did raise some up its concerns particularly about the issue reconciliation with the Taliban. Is Dennis mention the Indian spear that the situation will go back to the 1990’s where the Taliban dominated country, where Pakistan played a very large role so I think there are some concerns there and...

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Assessing Which Agriculture Technologies Can Feed The World – with Claudia Ringler

Posted by on Apr 24, 2015 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Assessing Which Agriculture Technologies Can Feed The World – with Claudia Ringler Is a resell of food crisis 2007, 2008, and again 2010, 2011. Food security and double for production particularly home can be feed nine billion people in 2050, with small sustainable production methods and so that people can afford the food. So basically we have to increase yields that has come back on the forefront of the global development agenda, what we have been trying to look into is you know which agriculture technologies. Would make a difference the agriculture technology debate is polarized, so we have on the one hand the people who to believe that the organic farming. That is basically the only path to sustainable development and on the other hand. The other hand of the polarized debated, you have the schools and the followers of events, engineering, geo crops and looking for laser land leveling precision agriculture really and looking and towards in a way innovative technologies only without taking into account the indigenous knowledge and traditional technologies. Really, the goal is to bring this more polarized debated, to be back together. Showing meant really a variety of technologies work in a variety of settings. Based on a literally review and talking to a lot of agriculture experts we have, just come up was just a series of key technologies. That be believed have can make a difference, and different developing regions. Really being aware that there is no fantasy out there and that what a technology like in integrate its offer to the management. That we have shown to show a lot of potential in such an south Africa, might be of less interest in the region like Brazil, where still is not only very promising but has also been adopted at a very large scale. So all across all these technologies which make sense where, in terms of yields, in terms of conductivity, in terms of labor-saving, but also in terms of environmental impacts, because the focus really is to produce more with is less soldier to reduce environmental footprint. So on such results will be basically available in the former from a policy modeling tool...

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The Hazara of Afghanistan: Cultural Exhibit & Lecture

Posted by on Apr 24, 2015 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

The Hazara of Afghanistan Cultural Exhibit & Lecture was aim to increase awareness of the rich history and cultural heritage of the Hazara people who now live throughout the world, the Hazara ethnic group the third-largest in Afghanistan is a culture that surviving genocide decades the political oppression them Calvin hacking regine. even today terrace have been targeting Hazara ethnic group equator Pakistan.Hazara of Afghanistan culture exhibit and lecture was organized by Mister Mohammad Rezaee, let the Taliban Rezaee in 95 he has delivered a lecture several times in the latter area at the same time so important grams Caroline using you technology show the photos in large-scale living color. He is not only the organizers of this exhibit but He is also the author my mother’s prayers and the trio which were published by the quality newspaper you also the interviewed several times by me Rezaee has worked for day in and day out to rise this exhibit. On January 17 2012 opening for as The Hazara of Afghanistan cultural exhibit and lecture was held at the Tucker – Reid H. Cofer Library. Mr. Rezaee shared his personal story with attendees, talked about the history of Hazara and the current condition the Hazara people and in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The exhibit features works of Haraza journalists Ohafiz Besharat,Barat Ali Batoor, Sajad Juha, and Mohammad Rezaee. These photo had never been seen before in the United States attendees up the opening wokr served hazaragi and observe the display of hazaragi clothes, also read history of Haraza written in a brochure format by a famous historian Karim Yazdani, was distributed to attendees. The photo exhibit was on display Tucker Library, from January 17 until March 28 2012. Many people attended the opening and many people visited people the photo exhibit at the library. Georgia Perimeter College, one of the largest educational institution in Georgia, is hosting the Hazara afghanistan culture and exhibit at the Dunwoody campus. This is free event, open to the public from June 14 through July 13 2012, you are cordially invited to attend the lecture opening of photography exhibit on June 14 featuring the work Hazara photojournalist. The lecture when include...

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