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ISLAMABAD, 25 April (IRIN) Millions of Afghans could face starvation because of a poor harvest this year occasioned by a severe seed and water shortage, according to a survey carried out by the World Food Programme (WFP). Speaking at…

After personally witnessing the devastation wrought by drought and war in Afghanistan, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator said today that about 1 million Afghans were at risk of famine. Speaking to reporters in Geneva following his recent urgent mission to…

KABUL, Jan 3 (Reuters) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Wednesday it was deeply concerned about the safety of some 10,000 Afghan women and children displaced by war and crammed near the border with…

Despite international initiatives such as the Earth Summit in 1992 and ongoing efforts to implement the Kyoto Protocol, human activities continue to register a destructive toll on the planetary environment. At root, research on global environmental…

An effort to reach the most desperate: UNICEF seeking $207 million for children caught in crisis zones 4 December 2000: Seeking to protect children in crisis zones from disease, starvation, and exploitation, as well as to provide them with education…

Geneva, 01 November, 2000 The United Nations on Friday last said, up to one million Afghans could die of starvation amid the worse drought in 30 years unless international donors react swiftly to appeals for help. UN and aid agencies…

The United Nation's refugee agency said today it had scaled back its operations in Jakarta after three of its foreign staff were killed in West Timor and a spate of bombings in the capital. Most of the UN High…

LONG AN, Vietnam, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Rising waters threaten to drive a further 500,000 people from their homes in the worst floods to hit Vietnam's Mekong Delta in decades, relief officials said on Thursday. The floods have already inundated…

by Jason Wolfe When Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines June 15, 1991, an estimated 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide and ash particles blasted more than 12 miles (20 km) high into the atmosphere. The eruption…

AI Index ASA 33/005/2000 News Service Nr. 126 Until the government of Pakistan takes decisive action to end the harassment and political intimidation of Afghan intellectuals living as refugees in Pakistan, dozens of prominent Afghans will remain at risk of deportation…