Informes

TALKING POINTS Refugee repatriation The number of Afghan refugees who have returned from Pakistan has now passed 2.5 million. This means that in total more than 3.7 million people have returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan and Iran since 2002 when the…

Kabul, 21 July 2005 - The second major phase of Afghanistan's child soldier demobilization and reintegration campaign got underway in the west of the country this week, with an expected 3,500 children likely to benefit from the initiative in…

Before Chairman James Kolbe and The Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing And Related Programs of The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations July 12, 2005 Mr. Chairman, Congresswoman Lowey, and other distinguished Members of the Subcommittee; it is a…

Professor Yakin Ertürk, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on violence against women, its causes and consequences, issued the following statement in Kabul today at the end of a visit to Afghanistan: In the course of…

TALKING POINTS Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) update Now that the "DD" phase of the DDR process is complete, the focus has shifted towards reintegration and will remain there until mid 2006 when the entire DDR process is expected to be complete. To…

TALKING POINTS Reintegration of former AMF Soldiers To date 56,706 former Afghan Military Forces officers and soldiers have been demobilized and 54,995 have been registered for reintegration. Afghanistan's New Beginnings Programme (ANBP) has also collected 36,395 heavy and light weapons under the…

Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) End of Disarmament and Demobilization As you know, last week's ceremony at the National Military Academy, marked the end of the disarmament and demobilization parts of DDR. With almost 63,000 former combatants having traded in their weapons…

Special Court Needed For Past Atrocities (New York, July 7, 2005) -- Numerous high-level officials and advisors in Afghanistan's current government are implicated in major war crimes and human rights abuses that took place in the early 1990s, Human Rights…

IN THIS ISSUE: - Suicide attack on mosque in Kandahar kills 17 people. - Kidnapped Italian aid worker released. - Regional tensions increase. - Accelerating pressures on Afghan refugees as camps close in Pakistan. - Government reshuffle significantly alters local power dynamics. Security The past…

A/60/87-E/2005/78 General Assembly Sixtieth session Item 74 (a) of the preliminary list* General Assembly Sixtieth session Item 74 (a) of the preliminary list* Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance Economic and Social…