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TALKING POINTS The guest today is Surya Sobhrang, Deputy and Acting Minister of Women's Affairs. International Women's Day During the last briefing I brought to your attention the fact that International Women's Day is observed every year on the 8th of March.…

TALKING POINTS JEMB now complete, Chief Electoral Officer appointed The election authority in Afghanistan is the Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB). It ran the presidential elections last year. It will do the same this year with legislative elections. It…

Extract Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee United States Senate Washington, D.C. March 2, 2005 I welcome the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the work of the U.S. Agency for International Development in Asia and the Near East. USAID…

Australia is playing an important role in the international effort to assist Afghans rebuild their national institutions, infrastructure and economy after more than two decades of conflict, oppression, and instability. Since September 2001, Australia has pledged a…

IN THIS ISSUE: The Afghan Government publishes its counter-narcotics strategy US looks likely to retain bases in Afghanistan for some time to come International Crisis Group produces report on disarmament programme 104 killed in plane crash UNDP's Human Development Report ranks Afghanistan 173rd out of…

TALKING POINTS Winter: Humanitarian situation assessed in 13 provinces In the last weeks that we have been covering this story you have heard, here and in other places, the different actions, the concerns, the different risks in different…

State Department fact sheet February 22 provides details of support The U.S. government is supporting Afghan women in their efforts to increase their participation in politics, obtain greater legal rights, learn how to become entrepreneurs, protect the environment and receive more…

TALKING POINTS DDR: Another milestone with 40,000 soldiers having disarmed The Afghanistan 's New Beginnings Programme (ANBP) is now over the 40,000 mark regarding disarmed soldiers. As of today, 40,104 former AMF officers and soldiers have handed in their weapons.…

The Independent Expert of the Commission on Human Rights on the Situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan issued the following statement today: The Independent Expert of the Commission on Human Rights on the Situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan, M.…

A/59/695-S/2005/72 General Assembly Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 101 Promotion and protection of the rights of children Security Council Sixtieth year I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Security Council resolution 1539 (2004), by which the Council requested me to submit a report on…