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