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INTRODUCTION Child soldiering: a damaging and despicable practice Overview UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has condemned child soldiering as a "damaging and despicable practice". Five UN Security Council resolutions have denounced it. Pope John Paul II has called the use of child soldiers a…

TALKING POINTS The longest 14 days in the lives of Lito, Shqipe, and Annetta Two weeks ago Annetta Flanigan, Shqipe Hebibi and Angelito Nayan were abducted in Kabul. What were they doing that day? They were going about their business.…

TALKING POINTS One week since UN staff abduction One week ago today, Shqipe Hebibi, Annetta Flanigan, and Angelito Nayan were abducted here in Kabul. We are very grateful for the hard work of the Afghan authorities to obtain their release and…

Highlights On October 9, 2004 Afghanistan reached another historic milestone: the successful completion of its first ever democratic election. The willingness of ordinary Afghans to brave security threats, inclement weather, and long distances to make their voices heard and to choose…

TALKING POINTS The guest today is Ray Kennedy, Vice Chairman of the Joint Electoral Management Body. Progress still lacking in Afghanistan according to Human Rights Independent Expert The Independent Expert of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights…

(Extract) Spokesperson: Jean-Philippe Chauzy AFGHANISTAN - Post Election Activities - IOM's Regional Representative and IOM's Out of Country Registration and Voting (OCRV) Director visited Kabul 14 and 15 October to deliver the formal report on the Election Day in Pakistan and…

TALKING POINTS Election preparations in numbers Tomorrow is election day, presidential elections, the first time Afghans will vote for president. Some ten and half million of them are eligible to vote. The registration exercise began on December 1, 2003. It began…

You can witness the rebirth of Afghanistan after 23 years of savage warfare by going to the United Nations Refugee Center here. Painted trucks laden with refugees return each day from Pakistan and Iran bearing hundreds of Afghans to…

A/59/426 Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 101 Summary The present report seeks to assess the progress that has been made in mainstreaming the concerns of war-affected children in the United Nations system and the gaps that still exist in this regard. Mainstreaming of the…

AI Index: ASA 11/014/2004 (Public) News Service No: 249 The great pains Afghanistan is going through in holding elections -- registration officers killed, voters intimidated -- are symptoms of the wider turmoil in the country, according to an Amnesty International…