Reports

Programme of demobilization and reintegration spans eight provinces KABUL, 24 June 2004 - The programme to demobilize and re-integrate former child soldiers in Afghanistan, led by UNICEF with Government, NGO partners and local communities, has now helped to demobilize 2,203 children…

TALKING POINTS Campaign For Verification Of Political Rights Launched Dr. Seema Samar, Chairperson of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), and Jean Arnault, the Special representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Afghanistan, yesterday launched the campaign to verify political rights in…

GA/SPD/281 Fifty-eighth General Assembly Fourth Committee 26th Meeting* (AM) Concluding its work for the fifty-eighth session, the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) this morning approved a draft resolution by…

Secretary-General Says Two-Way Dialogue between UN, Civil Society Needed, Not So One Directs the Other, But to Ensure Complementary Efforts SC/8128 Security Council 4993rd Meeting (AM & PM) Calling for a two-way dialogue between the United Nations and civil society,…

INTRODUCTION This report is respectfully submitted to Congress under the provisions of Sec. 3 (2) of P.L. 107-81, The Afghan Women and Children Relief Act of 2001, as signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 12, 2001.…

TALKING POINTS Women Registrants Continue Steady Increase -- Overall Voter Registration Reaches 100,000 Plus Per Day As of 17 June, 4,178,489 Afghans had registered to vote. The gender breakdown is 2,660,903 men and 1,517,586 women -- 63.7 percent men and 36.3…

TALKING POINTS Afghan Voter Registrants Just Shy of Four Million Mark The Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB) held a meeting with the representatives of the registered political parties yesterday, 16 June, at the JEMB office in Kabul. Nineteen of the 21…

Kabul's Olympic stadium was recently the venue for an historic event for Afghanistan. More than 1,400 working children joined together on Working Children's Day to raise their voices to authorities responsible for protecting and respecting the rights of working…

Fact Sheet Bureau of South Asian Affairs Washington, DC June 15, 2004 The U.S. partnership with Afghanistan began in October 2001 with the end of the Taliban regime and Afghanistan's support for terrorism. Since then, the United States has provided more than $4.2…

Fact Sheet Bureau of South Asian Affairs Washington, DC June 15, 2004 Following their meeting at the White House today, U.S. President George W. Bush and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai issued a joint statement describing a partnership for the future between the United…