Informes

10:08 a.m. Feb 24, 1997 EST KABUL, Feb 24 (Reuter) - The case of two French aid workers detained in Afghanistan for ''immoral deeds'' has been referred to the country's Attorney-General, a Taleban minister said on Monday. ''The case has…

07:00 a.m. Feb 23, 1997 EST KABUL, Feb 23 (Reuter) - The international Committee of the Red Cross expressed concern on Sunday over the detention of six aid workers arrested in Afghanistan by the Taleban authorities on Friday and Saturday.…

Contact: Don Krumm (202) 828-0110 The international community still has not grasped the necessity for providing major food relief to North Korea if massive famine is to be averted. While Refugees International applauds the U.S. decision announced February 9 to…

By Kevin Sullivan (c) 1997, The Washington Post SEOUL, South Korea South Korea plans to donate $6 million in emergency food aid to famine-threatened North Korea, despite recent tensions over a high-ranking North Korean defector who sought asylum a week…

E/CN.4/1997/59COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Fifty-third sessionItem 10 of the provisional agenda: QUESTION OF THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMSIN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO COLONIALAND OTHER DEPENDENT COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIESFinal report on…

Washington -- The State Department announced February 19 a $10 million donation of humanitarian assistance to North Korea for use in flood-related relief. According to a statement by State Department Spokesman Nicholas Burns, the U.S. assistance -- in the form…

KABUL, Feb 19 (Reuter) - The most senior member of the Taleban administration in Kabul said on Wednesday he doubted that talks between the Taleban and opposition groups would succeed since the opposition was not sincere. ''We are willing to…

Political negotiations On 12 February, an UNSMA mission visited Kandahar to discuss the next round of working group talks (scheduled to take place in Islamabad next week) with Governor Mullah Mohamed Hassan, Head of the Shura and Shura members. Mullah…

KABUL, Feb 17 (Reuter) - Central Afghanistan's economy will be severely affected if more than 100,000 people displaced from the plains north of Kabul are not allowed to return to their farms, a U.N. refugee official warned on Monday. ''If…

GENEVA (Reuter) - North Korea, reeling from poor harvests after major floods, will need foreign food supplies by April if a serious crisis and starvation is to be averted, U.N. and aid officials said Thursday. But some Western donors are…