Reports

Executive Summary The main purposes of the HAP Afghanistan field trial were: 1. To test, through various methods, how a mechanism for enhanced accountability to beneficiaries or claimants of humanitarian assistance can function, and add value to humanitarian programmes in Herat, Afghanistan; 2.…

This report is the culmination of three months work completed by the HAP team during the Second Field Trial in Afghanistan. In writing this report, the authors (Andy Featherstone and Sarah Routley) have endeavoured to present the findings in…

Program provides drug awareness to Afghan refugees living in Pakistan by Cassandra Nelson Sitting on the floor of a room lined with beautiful hand-embroidered tapestries, Salma Bibi is holding court. About 20 women are gathered around her. She is telling…

Maintain Restrictions on US Security Programs (New York, July 31, 2002) - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell should urge Indonesia to demonstrate effective civilian control of the military and take action to hold senior military officers accountable for human…

AI Index: ASA 11/013/2002 The US investigation into the latest incident in Uruzgan must be carried out urgently and the findings must be made public, Amnesty International said today, adding; "The US military should be taking urgent measures to avoid…

On 23 and 24 May the ICRC hosted the latest International Humanitarian Forum in Wolfsberg, Switzerland. The Forum, which focused on the accountability of humanitarian and political actors towards those whose lives have been affected by armed conflict, was…

New Evidence of Violence Against Pashtuns (New York, March 7, 2002) -- Human Rights Watch today released recent testimonies documenting abuses against ethnic Pashtuns in northern Afghanistan, and warned that the deployment of an expanded international security force was needed to end…

ASA 11/022/2001 189/01 Amnesty International is calling on the US military to strengthen measures to ensure that civilians are not killed as a result of their military action, to investigate thoroughly reports of such incidents and make public their findings.…

This report reviews Indonesia's unimpressive record in bringing to justice those responsible for gross human rights violations. Since May 1998 only four major cases have resulted in convictions. In three of those cases there are significant reservations about the…

Observations and Analysis of a Fact-Finding Mission to the East Timorese Refugee Camps in West Timor, by Karen Orenstein, East Timor Action NetworkI. INTRODUCTION A delegation of congressional staffers, human rights advocates, journalists, and a noted filmmaker…