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Afghanistan
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan /Jomhuri-ye Eslami-ye Afghanestan
Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources (includes LC Portals: Afghanistan)
Constitution
- Afghanistan Ministry of Justice - includes 10 Constitutions from 1923 to 2004
- Afghanistan Embassy: Constitution of Afghanistan in English includes links in PDF to both the Pashtu/Dari constitution and an English translation
- Afghan Constitutions (Online Center for Afghan Studies via Internet Archive Wayback Machine) includes a description of previous constitutions; scanned images of constitution from 1964, 1976 and others, with a summary in English for the Communist Era Constitution
- History: Constitutions of the Past (Afghanistan Online) constitutions of 1923, 1963, 1976, 1987, and 1990; in English
- International Constitutional Law: Afghanistan (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) includes an unofficial translation of the 2004 constitution
- Constitution Finder (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law)
Executive
- Afghanistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- World Factbook: Afghanistan - Government (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- United States Central Command
Judicial
- COURTS: The constitution establishes a nine-member Stera Mahkama or Supreme Court and subordinate High Courts and Appeals Courts; from World Factbook: Afghanistan - Government (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- Afghanistan Constitutional Commission (Internet Archive)
- Afghanistan Ministry of Justice
Legislative
- GAZETTE: Rasmi Jaridh (Afghanistan Ministry of Justice)
- PARLIAMENT: National Assembly [Grand Assembly]; non-functioning
- NATLEX: Afghanistan (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
Legal Guides and Miscellaneous
- Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
- Multinational Collections Database: Afghanistan (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
- Afghanistan Law Guide (University of Michigan Law Library) PDF
- Finding the Law: Islamic Law / Sharia (Andrew Grossman, via LLRX) August 11, 2002
- FindLaw: Afghanistan
- ForIntLaw: Afghanistan (Washburn University Law Library)
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Legal System and Research (Omar Sial via GlobaLex) December 2006
- JURIST: Afghanistan Afghanistan Legal News (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
- World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries: Afghanistan (Germany Bundestag)
- World Legal Information Institute: Afghanistan (WorldLII)
General Sources
- Country Profile: Afghanistan (Library of Congress) PDF
- Country Study: Afghanistan (Library of Congress) 1997
- Portals to the World: Afghanistan (Library of Congress)
- Background Note: Afghanistan (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Afghanistan (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- Consular Information Sheet: Afghanistan (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Information: Afghanistan (U.S. Dept of State)
- Country Profile: Afghanistan (BBC News)
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Afghanistan (U.S. Dept of State)
- Country Study: Afghanistan (American University Foreign Area Studies, via Illinois Institute of Technology) January 1986
- Embassy of Afghanistan, Washington
- Governments on the WWW: Afghanistan (Gunnar Anzinger)
- Human Rights in Afghanistan (Amnesty International)
- International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Afghanistan (U.S. Dept. of State)
- NEWS: Portals to the World: Afghanistan - Media and Communications; Afghan News Channel; Al Jazira; BBC Pashto; BBC Persian; BBC Uzbek; BBC World South Asia
- U.S. Embassy, Kabul (U.S. Dept of State)
- World Factbook: Afghanistan (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- World Hunger: Afghanistan (World Food Programme)
- WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Afghanistan (Google); Afghanistan (Yahoo); Afghanistan (University of Michigan); WWW-VL Middle East Studies: Afghanistan (Columbia University); WWW-VL History: Afghanistan; (University of Kansas); WWW-VL Middle East Studies: Afghanistan (University of Texas, Austin)
Last Updated: 12/18/2008