Afghanistan
Radio Serial Helps Rural Afghans to Hear Solutions to Conflict Post by Gordon Lubold May 18, 2012 KABUL -- USIP is working with an Afghan NGO that produces weekly radio programs that aim to educate millions of Afghans in…
Afghanistan
Issued by the Heads of State and Government of Afghanistan and Nations contributing to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Preamble We, the nations contributing to ISAF, and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, met…
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NATO risks turning back the clock on women’s rights and undoing any progress made over the past 10 years if more isn’t done to boost the capacity of Afghan security forces to protect the human rights…
Afghanistan
KABUL, 16 May 2012 (IRIN) - Bonded labour in Afghanistan's brick kilns is one of the most common forms of hazardous labour in the country. More than half of the brick kiln workers surveyed in a…
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New York, Tuesday 15 May 2012 Checked against delivery I have just completed a three day visit to Afghanistan – my first to the country. I wanted to see for myself the level and severity of humanitarian need…
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KABUL, 12 MAY 2012 –United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is seriously concerned that the protection needs of civilians, especially children and their right to education are being violated through reported attacks by anti-Government elements…
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Kabul, 12 May 2012 The Government of Afghanistan and NATO should ensure that protections for women and girls are a central component of transition and post-transition security frameworks for Afghanistan, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan,…
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KABUL, 10 May 2012 – UNICEF was shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the deliberate attack in Paktika province on Tuesday, on a convoy of fifteen staff members from the Department of Education of the…
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(Kabul/ New York, 9 May 2012) On day two of her four-day mission to Afghanistan, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos, visited an informal settlement in Kabul. During her visit to Parwan…
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8 May 2012 - With the Afghan Presidential elections scheduled for 2014, there has been much discussion and debate in the press in Afghanistan about various proposals including those by President Hamid Karzai to move the…
