Informes

Noting that successful mine action had helped millions of people in mine-affected countries resume normal lives, the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Marie Guéhenno, told correspondents today that there was much to celebrate at the occasion of the International Day for…

TALKING POINTS FLOODING UPDATE SIO: As we speak reports continue to come in from around the country of floods and avalanches that have affected many parts of Afghanistan. There is a huge effort currently taking place to reach an estimated 4,000 -…

HUMANITARIAN ISSUES & EMERGENCY RESPONSE Joint UN Mission - A 48 hours UN mission (UNAMA, WFP, UNICEF, UNDSS) was organized to Sharan in Paktika province (South-East) to plan for 2007 activities with counterparts/partners. The province has been inaccessible for the…

During the period of February 13 to March 15, JMAS Afghanistan found and blew up 6 mines buried underneath. We confirmed 30 more mines which exposes a part or the whole on the ground. Therefore, we expect 100 more…

General Assembly Sixty-first session Agenda item 16 The situation in Afghanistan Security Council Sixty-second year Report of the Secretary-General I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 61/18 of 28 November 2006, and to Security Council resolution 1662 (2006), in which…

Since it was created in June, the Human Rights Council has devoted significant attention to three human rights situations – Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, Lebanon and Darfur. It has also received and discussed reports on human rights…

Troops Confiscated Journalists' Photographs (New York, March 6, 2007) - The United States should abide by Afghan President Hamid Karzai's call for immediate investigations into US military operations on March 4 and 5 that resulted in high loss of civilian…

The most commonly agreed upon definition of a child soldier is based on the "Cape Town Principles" from 1997 and describes a child soldier as "any person under 18 years of age who is part of any kind of…

DanChurchAid (DCA) and Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) jointly call for all governments to immediately adopt a freeze on use, trade, production and acquisition of cluster munitions. As church related agencies, we are driven by our faith that life is sacred,…

QUETTA, 19 February 2007 (IRIN) - Anti-landmine activists are concerned that a proposal, made in December by the Pakistani government, to mine its western border with Afghanistan will increase the landmine casualties and have called on the government to…