UN rights expert denounces Taliban attacks on educators (AFP)
Published 8/15/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AFP - The Taliban's "systematic" targetting of educators in Afghanistan must not go unpunished, said the United Nations expert on education in a strongly worded statement Friday.
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