Table of Contents: Afghanistan - On the Precipice: Insecurity in Northern Afghanistan (Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper, June 2002)

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On the Precipice: Insecurity in Northern Afghanistan
Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper
June 2002
(download PDF version - 12 pages)

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Afghanistan: Human Rights Watch Key Documents

I. Introduction

II. Attacks on humanitarian NGOs

III. Militia abuses in IDP camps

IV. Continued abuses against Pashtuns in Faryab

V. Forcible recruitment

VI. Attempts to defuse factional tensions in the north

VII. Conclusions and recommendations