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SRSG Addresses Opening of UNICEF Workshop on the Demobilization and Reintegration of Former Child Soldiers in Afghanistan The Special Representative of the Secretary for Afghanistan (SRSG), Lakhdar Brahimi this morning opened a Workshop by the United Nations Childrens' Fund (UNICEF)…
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TALKING POINTS Faryab Province Gets Peace Commission I'll start today with some good news and that is to tell you about a peace commission that has been established. Last Wednesday in Maymana, Faryab Province, representatives of the Governor's Office, the major…
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KABUL - In Afghanistan today, in the face of overwhelming need, even small interventions are producing real progress. With support from UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, non-governmental organizations are building clinics and training staff to serve rural communities with no…
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan - The full waiting room at the Char Bolak clinic is clear sign that life is getting better in one northern village, thanks in part to a small non-governmental organization supported by UNFPA. Childbirth has become safer…
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SRSG and Afghan Government react to bomb at UN office in Baghdad All of us at the United Nations in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the world are still numb from the impact of the horrific bomb attack on 19 August…
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Aid agencies call on Jack Straw to widen the UN's Afghan peacekeeping mandate. Christian Aid and other aid agencies have appealed to the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, to sponsor a UN resolution to expand the role of the multinational security…
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More than a year and a half after the US-led military intervention, the rule of law in Afghanistan is being seriously undermined by the failure of the international community to provide urgently needed assistance, according to a report published…
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Violence A woman refugee who returned from Pakistan in early 2002 told a Human Rights Watch researcher what happened to her relatives who were attacked. She said, A little girl was injured - they shot her with a gun. Armed men…
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The Shangri-la valley of Bamiyan Province illustrates how much Afghanistan has improved since the overthrow of the Taliban in November 2001. Thousands of refugees have returned here to rebuild their homes and their lives. Their wheat and potato crops look…
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GENERAL Officially released statistics for the first half of 2003: GDP increased by 8.6% (over the period of 1991-2001 it decreased by 64%) Industrial production rose by 11.8% Agricultural production rose by 7.1% Export volume - US $296.5 mln.(aluminum - 55%) Natural disasters damaged/destroyed 4000…
