Rapports

OSRSG/062711-14 New York, 27 June 2011 - SRSG Coomaraswamy was appalled to learn today of the use of a young girl as an unwitting suicide bomber in the Char China District of Afghanistan. Equally disturbing was a…

Key Points • 2011 CAP is 60 per cent funded. • The IDP population has further increased to an estimated 433,066 individuals as of April 2011. • Between 2002-2011, it is estimated that between 5.5 and 6 million refugees…

25 JUNE 2011, KABUL – The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemns in the strongest terms the attack at a public hospital in the Azra district in Logar province that took place today resulting…

In remote Afghanistan, Medair works to save the lives of malnourished children and pregnant women. “There are a lot of people who, when they are not properly fed or treated when they are sick, will die,” said…

23 June 2011 - Sima, a widow for more than a year, is learning to sew at a centre in Kabul in hopes of making enough money to pay her rent and buy pencils and books…

World Refugee Day: UNHCR report finds 80 per cent of world's refugees in developing countries GENEVA, June 20 (UNHCR) – A UNHCR report released today reveals deep imbalance in international support for the world's forcibly displaced, with…

Reference: MEMO/11/422 Date: 19/06/2011 The EU is one of the major donors to Afghanistan, providing some €1 billion -with contributions from Member States- each year. Between 2002- 2010 the European Commission alone committed more than €2 billion…

Human Rights Council AFTERNOON 10 June 2011 The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its annual discussion on women’s human rights with a panel discussion focusing on conflict-related violence against women. Kyun-wha Kang, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights,…

Ambassador Peter Wittig, Germany’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations; Chair of the UN Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict; and of the UN Security Council Resolution 1267 (1999) Committee concerning the Al-Qaida…

June 3, 2011 | by Erica Gaston The following article originally appeared in Foreign Policy. This week Afghan president Hamid Karzai kicked off the Afghan fighting season with strong words, not for the Taliban, but for his international…