Informes

News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International AI Index: ACT 76/001/2003 (Public) 12 February Anniversary of the UN "Child Soldiers" Treaty On the eve of the anniversary of the entry into force of an international treaty banning child soldiers,…

(NGO project guidelines listed in PRM fact sheet) (3360) The State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) will begin reviewing proposals from non-government organizations (NGOs) to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, according to a PRM fact sheet released…

GENERAL According to the official data on Tajikistan for 2002, GDP increased by 9.1% (over the period of 1991-2001, GDP decreased by 64%) while industrial production rose by 8.2 % compared to 2001 and inflation rate was reported to be…

Fact Sheet Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration Washington, DC Afghan refugees and conflict victims have been receiving assistance from the United States since millions fled Afghanistan in 1978. Afghanistan has been experiencing a severe humanitarian crisis with 3 years of drought…

SC/7654 Security Council 4699th Meeting (AM) The peace process in Afghanistan needed to progress "much further" before it could be safely said that it was irreversible, the Special Representative for Afghanistan, Lakdhar Brahimi, told the Security Council this morning. With the challenges…

PREFACE For more than two millennia, Afghanistan has been at the crossroads of civilizations and a major contributor to world culture. In the past quarter century, the country has also found itself at the crossroads of international terrorist violence and…

Political and security developments The possibility of a US-led military intervention in Iraq is acting as a shadow over both the government and the aid community. The Afghan government fears that Afghanistan will fall off the international agenda and that…

Executive SummaryIntroduction Afghanistan is heavily contaminated with landmines and unexploded ordnance, known contaminated totalling approximately 788.7 sqkm, of which 157.7 sqkm. of land affects high-impacted communities. The Afghan Transitional Authority and state institutions are now working to…

United States Agency for International Development Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Office of Transition Initiatives Program Description USAID/OTI's program goal is to support the process of recovery, rehabilitation and political development in post-conflict Afghanistan. Working with a number of…

International agencies are working to clear Afghanistan's former battlefields, as landmines continue to claim victims. By Danish Karokhel in Takhar Province (ARR No. 46, 31-Jan-03) More than a year after war ended in Afghanistan, the people of this remote province still live…