KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan women's activists praised President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday for nominating a record three women to his cabinet, and said it was now less likely that women's rights would be
More Afghan women are choosing suicide to escape the violence and brutality of their daily lives, says a new human-rights report prepared by Canada's Foreign Affairs Department.
Kabul, Afghanistan - For much of this country's history, the Hazara were typically servants, cleaners, porters and little else, a largely Shiite minority sidelined for generations, and in some inst