Reports

New study supports community-based approach to education in Afghanistan ATLANTA (November 23, 2009) - Today CARE, the World Bank and the Afghanistan government released "Knowledge on Fire: Attacks on Education in Afghanistan," a groundbreaking study that suggests that a community-based approach…

QUANG TRI PROVINCE, Viet Nam - Life has never been easy for Nguyen Thi Lanh, 51, and Nguyen Duc Phi, 52. After enduring years of war, they married in 1977 and a year later had their first baby. "We…

Rabab Fatima and Adnan Ahmed Sirajee, IOM Bangladesh Posted on Monday, 16-11-2009 Bangladesh - They say, in Bangladesh, that climate change has a taste and it tastes of salt. At the south of the country, salinity is emerging as a major…

Loboc, Bohol (11 November) -- Disaster risk reduction, disaster preparedness, and climate change were on top of today's agenda during the full Cabinet meeting presided by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo at the Tourism Center. The President asked Vice President Noli de Castro…

GA/SHC/3964 Sixty-fourth General Assembly Third Committee 38th & 39th Meetings (AM & PM) High Commissioner for Refugees Says Trends Causing Crises to Multiply; Means Humanitarian Action Operating in Difficult International Environment Five "mega-trends" -- population growth, urbanization, climate change, migration and…

Vientiane, Lao PDR - The Mekong River Commission (MRC) has today announced a new effort to address climate change in the Mekong Basin. The Mekong Climate Change and Adaptation Initiative (CCAI) aims to develop and implement climate change adaptation strategies to…

Introduction Kabul, October 2009 - Nearly every second Afghan citizen is under 15 years of age - in numbers: 12 million or 49 percent of the population. Also, more than one out of three Afghans - some 9 million people…

SG/SM/12580 Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's remarks at the staff town hall meeting in New York today, 30 October: I wanted to bring us together, this morning, today, following the murder of our dear friends and colleagues in Kabul. I would…

Minneapolis, MN (October 27, 2009)-The American Refugee Committee-which assists more than 500,000 people in Pakistan-said today that the headlines about the turmoil in Pakistan have been missing a critical element: the voices of people who are caught in the…

Kabul/Brussels, 27 October 2009: Widespread fraud in the 20 August presidential and provincial council polls has deeply undermined the credibility of Hamid Karzai's government, the main beneficiary of the rigging. Afghanistan faces a critical test in the run-off between President…