Afghanistan's Girl Gap
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Women can be elected to parliament, but six years after the fall of the Taliban less than 30% of girls are enrolled in schools. Their absence could be Afghanistan's next crisis
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KABUL, Afghanistan A UN official says two workers held hostage in Afghanistan are looking forward to some peace and quiet. The women, one from Northern Ireland and the other from Kosovo, took off from Kabul today aboard a UN plane.
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GARDEZ, Afghanistan -- Three years after the US invasion, Paktia Province and the rest of southeastern Afghanistan illustrate the mixed results of an intervention that ousted the Taliban regime but has yet to capture Osama bin Laden or forge a stable, centralized state to keep out terrorists for good.
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Country produces 87% of global opium. One in ten Afghans works in opium trade. UN: state is world&#39;s second worst to live in. By Nick Meo in Jalalabad and Leonard Doyle.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Aug. 22, 2004 - US soldiers sprayed a pickup truck with bullets after it failed to stop at a roadblock in central Afghanistan, killing two women and a man and critically wounding two other
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Oxfam says more than half of Afghan children are missing out on school because of a lack of teachers and places.
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Over 10.5 Afghans have registered to vote in the first-ever direct presidential election on Saturday, October 9. This will also be the first time in the country&#39;s 5,000-year recorded history that women will not just be allowed to vote, but contest.
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Nicholas Kristof (&quot;Afghan women still in thrall,&quot; Views, Oct. 7) draws a depressing picture of life for Afghan women today, two years after George W. Bush announced that they were &quot;at last free.
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Â· Study of seven-year-olds shows wide gender gap Â· Conservatives accuse ministers of complacency
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JALALABAD, Afghanistan -- This month, two Afghan medical workers drove off into the hazy blue mountains that rise above this dusty provincial capital. They have not been seen since.
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Three years after the US-led invasion, Afghanistan is flooding the world with heroin, warlords reign in the provinces, women are scared and the new security forces are underarmed and undersized, analysts say.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The family of a 7-year-old Afghan girl raped by two men has come forward to demand justice, defying social customs that view such attacks as a stain on the victim's honor. Two months after the rape, the girl is still in pain, rarely speaks, and looks no one in the eye.
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PARIS, Dec. 6 -- Mountainous and isolated, caught for centuries between competing empires along one of the world's great trading routes, Afghanistan has always been a place of legends. Twenty-eight years ago, another one was born.
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On Saturday, the Afghan people took another step toward lasting peace and prosperity while dealing a blow to terrorism. Afghan women and men turned out in massive numbers to participate in
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Entrepreneur Kamela Sediqi teaches Afghans around the country the skills they need to start ventures.
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Why running water may mean a better education for some Afghan children.
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Some say Afghani society may not be ready yet to interpret correctly what they see in movies from India and the West.