人权观察说，自从塔利班5年前丧失权力以来，阿富汗的暴力冲突现在处于最高峰，人们的基本需求无法得到满足。
这个国际人权组织一份新的报告说，阿富汗没有达到一年前在柏林捐赠国会议所制定的人民生活标准。报告说，在保障安全、食品、电力、饮水和医疗保健方面进展甚微。
报告还说，2006年阿富汗有1000多平民被打死，其中很多人死于塔利班和其它反政府武装的袭击，大部份在阿富汗南部地区。人权观察呼吁捐赠国增加对阿富汗在经济、政治和军事领域内的帮助，并呼吁卡尔扎伊总统的政府解散非法民兵组织。
Human Rights Watch says violence in Afghanistan is at its highest level since the Taleban left power five years ago, and basic human needs are going unmet.
A new report by the international rights group says Afghanistan is not meeting benchmarks for the well-being of its people set at a donors conference in Berlin a year ago. It says there has been little progress in providing security, food, electricity, water and health care.
The report also says more than one thousand civilians were killed in Afghanistan in 2006, many from attacks by Taleban and other anti-government forces, most of them in southern Afghanistan. Human Rights Watch is calling on donor countries to increase economic, political and military assistance to Afghanistan, and for the government of President Hamid Karzai to disband illegal militias.
日本法庭驳回战争孤儿赔偿要求 (Japanese Court Rejects Compensation for War Orphans)
一家日本法庭驳回了由40位日本公民发起的赔偿诉讼。这些人二次世界大战接近尾声时还是儿童的时候被遗留在中国。
东京地方法庭星期二驳回了这些被称为是“战争孤儿”的诉讼人提出的1000多万美元的索赔要求。
诉讼人表示，政府在战争结束之后没有及时把他们救出，在他们1970年代返回日本之后也没有帮助他们重新融入社会。
但是法庭认为，诉讼人所遭受的苦难为战争造成，国家没有责任帮助他们迅速返回日本。
日本军队1931年占领了当时的满洲里之后，日本向那里移居了成千上万的日本人。很多日本军人、官员、和商人的孩子二战后被留在中国，由中国家庭抚养成人。
A Japanese court has rejected a compensation lawsuit filed by 40 Japanese citizens who were left behind in China as children in the closing days of World War Two.
The Tokyo District Court Tuesday rejected demands for more than 10-million dollars in compensation for the plaintiffs, known as "war orphans."
The plaintiffs had argued that the government failed to rescue them immediately after the war, and did not help them reintegrate into Japanese society once they returned in the 1970s.
The court, however, said the plaintiffs' hardships were the result of war, and the state was not responsible for swiftly returning them to Japan.
Japan sent hundreds of thousands of its citizens to what was then called Manchuria after its troops occupied the area in 1931. Many children of Japanese military officials, bureaucrats and private businessmen were left behind after the war and raised by Chinese families.
