Afghanistan
Visiting places of detention and restoring family links The ICRC regularly visits prisons run by nations contributing to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, by US forces and by the Afghan authorities. These visits also help separated…
Afghanistan
Legal age for marriage is 16, but custom allows younger girls to wed KABUL —Fifteen-year-old Freshta has escaped marriage to a man more than twice her age. But she has been cast out of her home and…
Afghanistan
27 September 2012 – Government officials, members of the diplomatic corps, Afghan politicians, members of the civil society and the United Nations family came together today in Kabul to cherish what the Afghans have been yearning…
Afghanistan
More children are being killed or maimed as bloody conflict takes a heavy toll on the civilian population. Read the full story on Al Jazeera.
Afghanistan
By Rajat Madhok KABUL, Afghanistan, 14 September 2012 - When Suraiya was 6 years old, her older brother eloped with a neighbour’s daughter. In an attempt to buy peace, Suraiya’s parents gave her to the neighbour’s family. For…
Afghanistan
14 September 2012 – A top United Nations humanitarian official today stressed the need to keep global attention focused on Afghan human development needs, as part of the wider international engagement with and support for the…
Afghanistan
A clinic supported by the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) was destroyed to ruins and six patients were injured in the bombing in Saidabad on Saturday the 1st of September in Wardak province. Now the Country…
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE Economic Development Governance & Rule of Law Security & Force Protection Social & Strategic Infrastructure Humanitarian Update A team from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) visited the Islands of Samos, Leros and Simi in Greece to respond of a recent…
Afghanistan
10 September 2012 - A new documentary series produced by United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) aims to portray the overlooked contributions and fragile gains made in Afghanistan over the past ten years of international…
Afghanistan
KABUL -- Recent Afghan history has been marked by war, much of it fought among Afghans themselves on the basis of religious, ethnic, or political rivalries. So it should come as no surprise that even if they…
