1 Maternal Health in Afghanistan Introduction Six years ago‚ the reality of Afghanistan’s maternal mortality rate (MMR) sent shockwaves through the international health community‚ and resolving the issue became a key priority in the interim government’s strategy. The poor state of maternal health in Afghanistan is due to a range of medical factors as well as social‚ political‚ economic and environmental determinants. To address the situation‚ Afghanistan’s Ministry of Health (MoH) introduced
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November 2nd 2012-11-02 The women in Afghanistan had all their Rights taken away when the new government was establish‚ going against the Charter of Human Rights declared by the United Nations. The following paper will investigate the perspectives of the United Nations‚ the women of Afghanistan and the Taliban on the issues of women’s right in Afghanistan. Taking away a person rights is a Crime against Humanity while the women in Afghanistan are put in situation of being harmed or in danger
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Environmental issues in Afghanistan Kapisa province Environmental issues in Afghanistan predate the political turmoil of the past few decades. Forests and wetlands have been depleted by centuries of grazing and farming‚ practices which have only increased with modern population growth. In Afghanistan‚ environmental conservation and economic concerns are not at odds; with 80% of the population dependent on herding or farming‚ the welfare of the environment is critical to the economic welfare of
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Talibanning Women’s Rights: The Eternal Struggle Before the Taliban‚ a militant group that governed according to a strict sharia law‚ ruled Afghanistan in 1996‚ women were gaining rights and access to things they had never before hoped or imagined for. Once the Taliban came to power‚ all of the progress that they had made in the years past spiraled backwards and women had no rights throughout the entire country. The Taliban stood by a strict form of the Sharia‚ or Islamic‚ law. The Taliban
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War in Afghanistan and Iraq The United States of American is the greatest country in the world and because of that‚ the attraction for terrorism is always a concern. On September 11‚ 2001‚ the concern became reality when the world trade centers were attacked by terrorists and as a result‚ thousands of Americans lost their lives. America reacted by launching anti-Taliban operations‚ the first starting in Iraq then in Afghanistan. The first mission was Operation Iraqi Freedom. The purpose of this
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tribulation of living in a country ruined by political oppression and war. The role of women in Afghanistan is an unjust and unreasonable position in which they are continuously denied many freedoms and rights. Afghanistan than‚ did not believe in equality between men and women; men were superior whereas women were inferior. Hosseini identifies these inequalities and empathizes with the women of Afghanistan by narrating their struggles through the stories of Mariam and Laila. Afghan women like Mariam
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York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly session were claimed to have injected greater clarity to the US ‘endgame’ plans for Afghanistan. If so‚ there is little evidence of this. Conscious of the need not to draw the electorate’s attention to the “good war turned bad”‚ President Barack Obama made only a passing reference to Afghanistan in his nomination speech‚ mentioning that “in 2014‚ our longest war will be over”. Mitt Romney ignored this issue. Senior US Administration officials
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insurgent groups‚ the Taliban & Co. The security situation is relatively stable‚ and the war is finished. The institution building and democratization process picks up pace and President Hamed Karzai hands over to a democratically elected successor. Afghanistan still ranks among the least developed countries in the world. Scenario “Forced Marriage”: After long-standing political negotiations strongly supported by the international community‚ especially the United States and Great Britain‚ Islamist insurgents
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Twelve years have passed since the invasion of Afghanistan by US‚ British and Canadian troops and much has changed. Some are very beneficial like all girl schools‚ efforts to stop drug trade and sense of democracy in Afghanistan‚ states Michael Turner‚ US congressman of third district of Ohio. He explains how the education of women is a drastic change from a mere four years ago‚ where few women could rarely set foot out of home without a male chaperone‚ and even fewer knew how to read or write‚ and
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Afghanistan is one of the poorest nations due to years of war and political instability and is largely dependent on foreign aid. Afghanistan’s debt as of 2004‚ was $8 million in bilateral debt‚ mostly to Russia‚ with $500 million in debt to Multilateral Development Banks. The gross domestic product‚ per capita is $1‚000‚ with a real growth rate of 7.5%. The composition per sector is agriculture (38%)‚ industry (24%)‚ and services (38%). The labor force is approx. 15 million‚ with an unemployment
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