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• Child brides 'sold' in Afghanistan. BBC News, 15 April 2008. In northern Afghanistan it appears some parents are being driven by poverty and hunger to marry off their daughters at an early age. Jenny Cuffe investigates for Radio 4's Seven Days.
  
• Violence Against Women in War Zones. New York Times, Letters, 22 February 2008. Contractors working for the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan are getting what amounts to a get-out-of-jail-free card for crimes, including murders and rapes.
• Lack of institutional mechanisms to tackle human trafficking. Irin News, 19 July 2007. For Ali Shah Paktiawal, a senior police official dealing with social crimes in Kabul, it is not very important whether his country has any specific law against human trafficking or not.
• War, Poverty and Ignorance Fuels Sexual Abuse of Children. IRIN News, 06 June 2007. Abdul Kabir, not his real name, left his home in Afghanistan's southern Urozgan province to work for a relative and attend school in neighbouring Kandahar province.

• Violence Against Women Primary Database, UNIFEM Afghanistan 2008
  
• "Evaluation Report on General Situation of Women in Afghanistan", Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, 2007
• Afghanistan: Self-Immolation--Fleeing Violence, medica mondiale, 2006
• Afghanistan: uncounted and discounted, UNIFEM Afghanistan, Child Rights Information Network (CRIN), 2006
• Lessons in Terror Attacks on Education in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch, 2006
• "Lessons from Gender-focused International Aid in Post-Conflict Afghanistan... Learned?" Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Report, 2005.
• "Burqa Politics: The Plights of Women in Afghanistan" Chronogram Special Report, Chronogram Magazine, 2004.
• Paying for the Taliban's Crimes: Abuses Against Ethnic Pashtuns in Northern Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch, 2002
• Women's health and human rights in Afghanistan: A population-based study. Amowitz LL, Burkhalter H, Ely-Yamin A, Iacopino V. Boston, Mass: Physicians for Human Rights, 2001.

• Intimate partner violence among Afghan women living in refugee camps in Pakistan. Hyder, A. A., Z. Noor, et al. Social Science & Medicine 64(7): 1536-1547, 2007

• Funders' Network for Afghan Women