Past 100 years in Afghanistan

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    Past 100 years in Afghanistan

  • Britain exerted some influence over Afghan foreign policy from the late nineteenth century until the Third Anglo-Afghan War

  • When Afghanistan Independence

  • Kabul fell to forces led by Bacha-i-Saqao

  • Afghanistan joined the UN

  • independent political/social organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and for social justice in Afghanistan

  • Islamic traditionalists and ethnic leaders began an armed revolt

  • RAWA’s activities were confined to agitation for women’s rights and democracy

  • The strategies used by the tsar’s generals to subdue the khans north of the Amu Darya may have beeninstructive to Soviet commanders who moved across the river

  • RAWA launched a bilingual (Persian/Pashtu) magazine, Payam-e-Zan (Woman's Message)

  • the General Assembly also began a separate consideration of the human rights situation in Afghanistan

  • The founders were a number of Afghan woman intellectuals under the sagacious leadership of Meena was assassinated

  • WFP provided 60,000 metric tons of food to needy Afghans, while FAO provided 6,800 tons of seed and more than half a million fruit and poplar saplings

  • focus of RAWA’s political struggle has been against the fundamentalists’ and the ultra-fundamentalist Taliban’s criminal policies and atrocities against the people of Afghanistan in general and their incredibly ultra-male-chauvinistic and anti-woman orien

  • nearly 2.4 million children under five years of age were immunized against polio and more than 80,000 under two years old were inoculated against measles

  • As the Taleban captured Kabul

  • the Security Council noted the increasingly ethnic nature of the conflict, and reports of ethnicity-based persecution

  • the United Nations Population Fund estimated the population of Afghanistan at some 22.7 million

  • he US "War on terrorism" removed the Taliban regime

  • Afghanistan Constitution