Full Coverage: South West Asia

27.10.2006 WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (OneWorld) - NATO military operations in Afghanistan have come under renewed humanitarian scrutiny following new revelations that civilians have been killed.

26.10.2006 While fighting the Taliban to build a safe Afghanistan for its people, NATO must be more careful to ensure civilians are not caught up in its operations and compensate those who are killed, said an organization defending non-combatants in conflict zones.
From: The Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC)

23.10.2006 The Women’s Rights Center in Armenia, the Secretariat of the International Consortium for Domestic Violence, has the pleasure to announce about the organization of the Second International Conference on Domestic Violence, which will take place in Yerevan, Armenia, on December 4-6, 2006.

20.10.2006 Lack of rainfall is impacting all aspects of society in six Afghan provinces--from food shortages and crop prices to livestock rearing, out-migration, long-term development projects, and more.

19.10.2006 Were it not for the Iraq War, there would be a lot more serious questioning of U.S. policy in Afghanistan, says professor Stephen Zunes on the fifth anniversary of the war there.

12.10.2006 Since a diplomatic row began between Russia and Georgia in early October, people with Georgian backgrounds have faced repeated document checks, interrogations, fingerprinting, and deportation.

10.10.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 9 (OneWorld) - Afghan women's groups are calling for major changes from their government after the murder of a well-known female official in the southern province of Kandahar.

10.10.2006 Two countries abolished the death penalty in 2006, but two others are considering re-instating the practice, which human rights advocates say is imposed in many countries despite appallingly low court standards.

05.10.2006 KARACHI, Oct 5 (IPS) - She is in the news again. This time appearing in a documentary film ‘Shame', that tells her tale of being ordered gang-raped as retributive punishment by a village council.