Reports

Goals Agreed to by All Nations in May 2002 Are Slow to Take Hold NEW YORK, 8 May 2003 - Goals agreed to at a United Nations summit in May of 2002 have barely begun to be implemented by the…

TALKING POINTS Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, is appalled at the brutal assault on three deminers that occurred on 5 May in…

SC/7751 Security Council 4750th Meeting (AM) Says Next Steps Require Security throughout Country; Advocates Expansion of International Assistance Force beyond Kabul The issue of security in Afghanistan cast a long shadow over the whole peace process there and, indeed, over the whole…

Assessment of CCF's emergency entry program into Afghanistan, its impact on child well-being and protection Foreword Protection is an increasingly prominent priority for the humanitarian community. However, despite this development, child protection remains a low priority in most emergencies. The gap…

United States Agency for International Development Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Office of Transition Initiatives Program Description USAID/OTI's program goal is to support the process of recovery, rehabilitation and political development in post-conflict Afghanistan. Working with a number of…

Briefly... In comparison to the quick and successful U.S. military campaign to oust the Taliban, the political task of creating a stable and secure democratic state in Afghanistan is proving much more difficult. There are some hopeful…

Washington -- Many in the audience at the U.S. premiere of the documentary film "Afghanistan Unveiled" wept as the story of Afghan women and children played out on the big screen of the Woodrow Wilson Center's auditorium in Washington…

TALKING POINTS Statement Attributable to the Spokesman of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Afghanistan The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) wholeheartedly welcomes the inauguration, yesterday 26th April 2003, of the Constitutional Review Commission. The 35-member commission, chaired…

HR/CN/1046Other Measures Adopted on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Effective Functioning of Human Rights Mechanisms (Reissued as received.) GENEVA, 25 April (UN Information Service) -- The Commission on Human Rights, on the final morning of its 2003…

Landmine Update is a quarterly newsletter prepared and disseminated by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). It reflects the activities of the ICBL, its member organizations, its partner agencies and pro-ban governments in a three-month…