Rapports

SCA vision, mission and values SCA’s vision is an independent Afghanistan in peace where human rights are respected, rural communities are empowered and all Afghans have the right and opportunity to democratic participation in the governance of…

STEENOKKERZEEL, Belgium, May 2 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency and the Belgian government are increasingly alarmed at the rising number of unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the Western European country and at how young many…

April 2011 - In Afghanistan, only a small fraction of women are employed in full-time jobs or have the chance to earn any income. A combination of factors, including lack of education and a tradition of…

In the two months since the resumption of the United Nations voluntary repatriation programme more than 5,500 Afghan refugees have been able to return home. Meeting the immediate needs of the returnees is the result of…

Following a recent survey in the streets of Kabul, the Terre des hommes team of Torkham in its turn went to evaluate the situation of working children there. Situated on the frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan,…

Citizen Security, Justice and Jobs Key to Breaking Cycles of Political and Criminal Violence: World Bank Report Press Release No:2011/412/DEC 1.5 billion people in countries affected by repeated cycles of violence, with poverty rates more than 20 percentage…

Afghanistan is an Islamic republic; population estimates range from 24 to 33 million. In August 2009, citizens voted in their second presidential and first-ever contested election; after his challenger withdrew from a run-off election, the Independent…

7 April 2011 - A week-long exhibit on living with landmines and the many faces of Mine Action by photographer Marco Grob today opens at Bagh-e-Babur Garden in Kabul to mark the International Day for Mine…

Lynn Yoshikawa The senseless and brutal attack on innocent UN staff in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif continues to horrify the international community days after the fact. Last Friday, a mob of 2,000 people stormed the…

World marks international mine awareness day and calls for action NEW YORK, 4 April 2011 — Achievements have been made but landmines and explosive remnants of war continue to kill or injure thousands of people a year,…