One Cheer for Obama’s Executive Order on Drone Strikes
Yes, the White House lowballed its drone casualty numbers. But don’t let that obscure the value of its important policy changes, which will save civilian lives.
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Elizabeth Dickinson
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Afghan ‘Roadmap’ to Peace—A Dead End for Human Rights?
Pakistan has accepted an Afghan "roadmap" for peace, according to news reports this week. If true, this would be quite a breakthrough given the setbacks ...
President Karzai and the ‘secondary’ sex
The Afghan government was "too busy" for International Women's Day on March 8, so it postponed official acknowledgement until the 11th. It was not a ...
“Moderate” Taliban: A wolf in sheep’s clothing?
There's been much talk of a more "moderate" Taliban in recent months and years, part of a growing effort to rebrand the movement as a ...
Keeping control of bad choices
The Pentagon has just quietly released the redacted results of an inquiry into allegations of human rights abuses by U.S.-sponsored armed groups in Afghanistan. They ...
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About Rachel Reid
Rachel Reid is the Open Society Foundations’ advocacy manager for the Middle East, North Africa, and Southwest Asia. She was based in Afghanistan for Human Rights Watch from 2008 to 2011. Before her move into human rights work, she spent more than a decade with the BBC.
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