Informes

Afghan women have been denied their human rights for decades-the right to education, to work, to health care, to political participation. More than 87 percent of Afghan women cannot read or write. Pervasive violence against women is now considered…

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 25 May 2010 FINAL ROUNDUP Issues Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Colombia, Algeria, Mauritius, Kazakhstan and Afghanistan The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has concluded its forty-fourth session and issued its concluding observations…

24 May 2010 MDM AND UNODC COMPLETE HARM REDUCTION TRAINING Medicins du Monde (MDM) has just completed a two-day training on Harm Reduction for peer educators. This is the first in a series of Harm Reduction trainings for NGOs in Kabul…

New York, 21 May 2010- The Annual Report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council on Children and Armed Conflict (A/64/742--S/2010/181) has been issued yesterday afternoon. The report gives an overview of the situation of children affected by conflict and…

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 14 May 2010 The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has considered the combined second to fourth periodic report of Afghanistan (E./C.12/AFG/2-4) on that country's implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic,…

Speech by Ambassador Mark Sedwill, NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan It is a privilege to have been invited to speak at Chatham House before such an expert audience, and somewhat intimidating to speak without the protection of Chatham House…

The Interior Ministry issued an Executive Order for the Prohibition Against the Recruitment or Employment in the Afghan National Police of persons under the age of 18. This was one of the issues that the UN Special Representative for Children…

AFTERNOON 3 May 2010 The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon heard statements from a series of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on the situation of economic, social and cultural rights in Colombia, Algeria, Mauritius, Kazakhstan and Afghanistan, whose reports will…

MAPA Celebrates International Mine Action Day International Mine Action day is marked globally on April 4th. This year MAPA celebrated with a series of events leading up to the day. On 3rd April an Open Day was hosted by implementing partner…

DR NILAB MOBAREZ: Good morning and thank you all for coming. Today, our guest speaker is Dr Laroche from WHO, Assistant Director-General for Health Action in Crises. We also have with us Peter Graaff, the Country Representative for WHO.…