Afghanistan

This list of online sites relating to daily life in Afghanistan as well as humanitarian efforts and political commentary has been compiled primarily by Kate Rogers Gessert. If you have other sites of interest to add, please email them to giraffe@giraffe.com.

Afghan News

Afghan Network

http://www.afghan-network.net

Afghanistan Online

http://www.afghan-web.com

British News Sites

BBC (see especially articles by Robert Fisk and Patrick Cockburn

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news

Humanitarian Sites

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs

http://www.irinnews.org

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (Check out "Women's Right to Land: A Human Right")

http://www.fao.org

United Nations World Food Program

http://www.wfp.org

UNICEF's Stories from the Field, and Real Lives

http://www.unicef.org/noteworthy/afghanistan

Interaction - Directory and Links to Afghan Relief Organizations

http://www.interaction.org/afghanistan

Doctors Without Borders (see Photos: Life in Afghan Refugee Camps)

http://www.oxfam.org

Human Rights Watch

http://www.hrw.org

Expanding War

http://www.antiwar.com

Opinions and News

Counterpunch (see especially articles by Alexander Cockburn Jeffrey St. Clair, and "War on Terrorism for Dummies" by Bernard Weiner 3.3.02)

http://www.counterpunch.org

The Nation (with some web-only articles)

http://www.thenation.com

International Herald Tribune (see especially the editorial columnist William Pfaff)

http://www.iht.com/opinion.htm

Alternet

http://www.alternet.org

Common Dreams

http://www.commondreams.org

Working for Change

http://www.workingforchange.org

Email lists you can subscribe to

Harper's Weekly (a weekly collage of world events)

http://www.harpers.org

Institute for Public Accuracy (weekly email bulletins)

http://www.accuracy.org