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404 UNSC, Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General,
A/66/782–S/2012/261, 26 April 2012, para 16; and UNAMA, Afghanistan Mid
Year Bulletin 2009 on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, (Kabul,
Afghanistan: UNAMA, July 2009), 8; “Kabul,” Pajhwok Afghan News, 3 May 2012.
405 UNSC, Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General,
A/64/742–S/2010/81, 13 April 2010, para 50.
406 “Militants blast clinic, school in E Afghanistan,” Xinhua, 2 May 2009.
407 UNSC, Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General,
A/65/820–S/2011/250, 23 April 2011, paras 57 and 178.
408 UNAMA and OHCHR, Afghanistan Annual Report 2012 on Protection of
Civilians in Armed Conflict (Kabul Afghanistan: UNAMA and OHCHR, February
2013), 57; and UNSC, Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-
General, A/67/845–S/2013/245, 15 May 2013, para 31; UNSC, Children and Armed
Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General, A/66/782–S/2012/261, 26 April 2012,
para 16.
409 UNAMA and OHCHR, Afghanistan Annual Report 2012 on Protection of
Civilians in Armed Conflict (Kabul Afghanistan: UNAMA and OHCHR, February
2013), 57.
410 Ibid., 57.
411 Ibid., 67.
412 ‘Documented’ means reported and put on file; ‘verified’ means independently
assessed for reliability, e.g. visits to the location, interviews with victims,
cross-checking with other information.
413 UNSC, Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General,
A/67/845–S/2013/245, 15 May 2013, para 31.
414 Marit Glad, Knowledge on Fire: Attacks on Education in Afghanistan - Risks
and Measures for Successful Mitigation (Afghanistan: CARE International,
September 2009), 1.
415 Ibid., 9, 35, and 36; Antonio Giustozzi and Claudio Franco, The battle for the
schools: “The Taleban and state education” (Afghanistan Analysts Network,
August 2011), 7, 15; and Antonio Giustozzi and Claudio Franco, The ongoing
battle for schools: Uprisings, negotiations and Taleban tactics (Afghanistan
Analysts Network, 10 June 2013), 12, 15.
416 UNAMA and OHCHR, Afghanistan Mid Year Report 2012 on Protection of
Civilians in Armed Conflict (Kabul, Afghanistan: UNAMA and OHCHR, July 2012),
31.
417 UNAMA and OHCHR, Afghanistan Annual Report 2012 on Protection of
Civilians in Armed Conflict (Kabul, Afghanistan: UNAMA and OHCHR, February
2013), 57-58; UNSC, Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-
General, A/67/845–S/2013/245, 15 May 2013, para 31; and Graham Bowley,
“Taliban Kill 5 Education Officials Near Border,” New York Times, 8 May 2012.
418 Antonio Giustozzi and Claudio Franco, The Ongoing Battle for the Schools.
Uprisings, Negotiations and Taleban Tactics (Afghanistan Analysts Network, 10
June 2013). This was also confirmed by several INGOs in Kabul during interviews
with Brendan O’Malley, September 2012.
419 UNAMA, Afghanistan Annual Report 2012 on Protection of Civilians in Armed
Conflict (Kabul, Afghanistan: UNAMA and UNHCR, February 2013), 58. This was
also confirmed by several INGOs in Kabul during interviews with Brendan
O’Malley, September 2012.
420 UNAMA, Afghanistan Mid Year Bulletin on Protection of Civilians in Armed
Conflict, 2009 (UNAMA, July 2009), 8.
421 Haseeb Muslih, picture caption, Pajhwok Afghan News, 3 May 2012,
http://www.pajhwok.com/en/photo/177438.
422 “Two blasts rock Afghanistan in weekend violence,” The Hindu, 20 June 2010;
“Six children die in Afghan bomb blast,” BBC News, 2 August 2010.
423 “Bomb hits Afghan school bus, kills at least 9,” Reuters, 20 October 2010.
424 Agence France-Presse, “Grenade Wounds 17 Afghan Schoolchildren,” Relief
Web, 3 July 2011; AFP, “Afghanistan: 17 children wounded in grenade attack on
school,” NDTV, 3 July 2011.
425 Haseeb Muslih, picture caption, Pajhwok Afghan News, 3 May 2012,
http://www.pajhwok.com/en/photo/177438.
426 UNSC, Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General,
A/64/742 S/2010/181, 13 April 2010, para 50.
427 UNAMA, Afghanistan Annual Report 2010 on Protection of Civilians in Armed
Conflict (Kabul, Afghanistan: UNAMA, March 2011), 12.
428 UNSC, Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General,
A/66/782–S/2012/261, 26 April 2012, para 16; UNAMA, Afghanistan Annual
Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, 2011, 38.
429 UNAMA, Afghanistan Mid Year Bulletin on Protection of Civilians in Armed
Conflict, 2012 (Kabul, Afghanistan: UNAMA and UNHCR, July 2012), 32.
430 Graham Bowley, “Taliban Kill 5 Afghan Education Officials Near Border,” New
York Times, 8 May 2012.
431 UNAMA, Afghanistan Mid Year Report 2010 on Protection of Civilians in
Armed Conflict (Kabul, Afghanistan: UNAMA, August 2010), 10; and Spiegel
Online International, “Closures after Taliban threats: German Army can’t protect
Afghan girls’ schools,” 18 May 2009.
432 HRW, The 10-Dollar Talib and Women’s Rights: Afghan Women and the Risks
of Reintegration and Reconciliation (New York: HRW, July 2010), 12.
433 “Taliban Kill Afghan Girls’ School Headmaster,” Thomson Reuters, 25 May
2011.
434 UNAMA and OHCHR, Afghanistan Mid Year Bulletin 2012 on Protection of
Civilians in Armed Conflict (Kabul, Afghanistan: UNAMA and OHCHR, July 2012),
31
435 Hamid Shalizi, “Scores of Afghan Girls Ill in Third School Poisoning,” Reuters,
12 May 2009
436 “94 More Afghan Schoolgirls Reportedly Poisoned in Sar-i-Pul,” Threat
Matrix, 24 June 2012; Zabihullah Ehsas, “Schoolgirls, Teachers Poisoned in Sar-i-
Pul,” Pajwok Afghan News, 9 June 2010; and “17 Takhar Schoolgirls Ill after ‘Gas
Attack’,” Pajwok Afghan News, 18 April 2013.
437 School Safety Partners, “Over 80 Afghan School Girls Fall Ill in Suspected Gas-
Poisoning,” 25 April 2010.
438 “Afghan Arsonists Seek to Enforce Truancy from School,” Thomson Reuters,
10 June 2012.
439 Ali M Latifi, “Torture alleged in Afghan poisoning arrests,” Al Jazeera, 12 July
2012, http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/07/2012711105356413268.html
440 UNAMA and OHCHR, Afghanistan Mid Year Bulletin 2012 on Protection of
Civilians in Armed Conflict (Kabul, Afghanistan: UNAMA and OHCHR, July 2012), 31.
441 World Health Organization, “Mass Psychogenic Illness in Afghanistan,” Weekly
Epidemiological Monitor, Volume 5, Issue 22, 27 May 2012; HRW, World Report
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Afghan girls’ schools likely mass hysteria - not Taliban, says report,” The
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442 UNSC, Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General,
A/65/820–S/2011/250, 23 April 2011, para 57.
443 UNSC, Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General,
A/66/782–S/2012/261, 26 April 2012, para 16.
444 UNAMA and OHCHR, Afghanistan Annual Report 2012 on Protection of
Civilians in Armed Conflict (Kabul Afghanistan: UNAMA and OHCHR, February
2013); and UNSC, Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General,
A/67/845–S/2013/245, 15 May 2013, para 31.
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