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IWPR's new resource centre for journalists in Uruzgan. (Photo: IWPR)
IWPR Press Centre for Isolated Afghan Province
IWPR Afghanistan
1 May 12
Media resource centre will connect Uruzgan to the outside world.

An IWPR press centre complete with computers and internet access has been hailed as a timely response to the needs of journalists in Afghanistan’s central Uruzgan province, where equipment sh

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The Forgotten Victims: Conversation With the Film Makers
IWPR
5 Apr 12
Interviews with IWPR staff involved in film, and reactions from public screenings in Afghanistan.

As the first documentary covering the gross human rights violations committed over two decades of conflict, from 1978 to 2001, The Forgotten Victims was bound to make difficult viewing for Afghans

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The Forgotten Victims - Documentary
IWPR
5 Apr 12
New IWPR documentary sheds light on the war crimes and other abuses committed over two decades of Afghan conflict.

“The Forgotten Victims”, a new documentary produced by IWPR, sheds light on the war crimes and other human rights abuses committed in Afghanistan over two decades of serial conflict.

Three Decades on From Kunar Massacre
Shoaib Gharwal
13 Mar 12

 

Recent cycles of violence in Afghanistan sometimes obscure the fact that major atrocities have been going unpunished since the late 1970s.

Still from The Forgotten Victims - IWPR documentary. (Photo: IWPR)
IWPR Film Applauded in Kabul
Mina Habib
13 Mar 12
The Forgotten Victims hailed as a step forward towards transitional justice in Afghanistan.

An IWPR documentary on war crimes committed in Afghanistan over two decades received a rapturous welcome from foreign diplomats, Afghan media workers and civil society activists at a screening in K

Blind Casualties of Afghan Wars
Humira Tamana
8 Mar 12

One day eight years ago, 12-year-old Nazifa was walking home in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif when a rocket landed nearby. The explosion left her permanently blind.

Afghanistan: Human Cost of 1980s Mujahedin War
Farangiz Sawgand
8 Mar 12

During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, mujahidin groups targeted people like teachers who worked for the Communist authorities.

Remembering Northern Leaders Killed by Taleban
Said Zahir Adili
8 Mar 12

This radio piece looks at an incident in the late 1990s in which 18 Afghan community and tribal leaders were killed while trying to negotiate a peace deal with the Taleban.

Afghanistan: Accountability for 1990s War Crimes
Fazel Ahmad Yalghuz
27 Feb 12

In this report for the Afghan Witness Project, IWPR interviewed Kabul residents who survived the civil war of 1992-96.

Soviet Massacre in Southeast Afghanistan Remembered
Fazel Nagar
27 Feb 12

Survivors of a massacre carried out by Soviet troops in Afghanistan 27 years ago are calling for the perpetrators to be held to account.