Reports

Afghans reaching the end of coping, survival strategies Experts from Save the Children Cite Impending Health Emergency WESTPORT, CONN. - While the war in Afghanistan may be ending, the humanitarian crisis is far from over, particularly for the country's most vulnerable…

Termez, Uzbekistan: cross-border activities set back after uprising in Mazar, NGOs and UN agencies redeploying. After last week's disturbing events in Mazar-I-Sharif, all UN cross-border activities from Termez were temporarily set back at least one week. Twenty WHO health kits…

OVERVIEW This report provides an indicators-based assessment of conflict risk in the three Southeast Asian countries of Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines. The analysis crosses nine interrelated issue areas identified as underlying potential for conflict development. These areas are: History of…

Press backgrounder 01/01WHO HQ UZ Termez, Uzbekistan, 26 November 2001 As an immediate response to the complex emergency situation in Afghanistan, the WHO Regional Office for Europe's Emergency Preparedness and Response programme (EHA) is strengthening its operational presence in the…

AI Index: ASA 11/029/2001 The civilian population of Afghanistan has again been put at risk by the failure of the international community to protect them, Amnesty International said today as the Northern Alliance reached Kabul and reports were received of…

ASA 33/027/2001 195/01 Amnesty International is highly concerned about the location and conditions of the Chaman staging camp on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The refugees there should be transferred immediately to safer locations further away from the border, the…

Afghanistan's harsh winter will claim many lives as the country's poorest people struggle to survive with inadequate food and shelter, says Tearfund, one of the UK's largest aid agencies. Temperatures fall rapidly from mid-November and can get as low…

WHO SPECIAL REPORT Central Asia Crisis Unit A population on the move through rugged mountains and windswept deserts, high rates of malnutrition with limited clean water and barely more than dried bread to eat, the onset of winter as temperatures drop…

The military strikes against Afghanistan by the US and UK are fuelling the displacement of millions of people who are unable to seek refuge in neighbouring countries. That is the concern expressed today by the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS),…

UNICEF Viet Nam is currently seeking US$ 392,000 in order to provide emergency assistance to the hundreds of thousands of victims of this year's Mekong Delta floods. US$ 115,600 of these funds will be used to allow UNICEF to…