Rapports

KABUL, Afghanistan - Engineers and Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) teams of the French Battlegroup operating under ISAF's Regional Command Capital (RC-C) conducted an unexploded ordnance (UXO) awareness day in a rural area north of Kabul. Seventy young children attended a practical lesson…

Introduction Background Following almost three decades of war, the challenges facing Afghanistan's development remain immense. By 1380 (2001), the ravages of conflict had bestowed upon Afghan citizens and the incumbent administration an inheritance of debt not wealth. With the Taliban dominating the…

The International Conference in Support of Afghanistan to be held in Paris on Thursday 12 June will bring together high level representatives from some 80 countries and organizations involved in rebuilding Afghanistan since the fall of the Taleban in…

LONDON, United Kingdom, June 10 (UNHCR) Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi has published a book on legal structures in Iran that she hopes will encourage other human rights activists in the Islamic world to work for the protection…

UNAMA: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Nazifullah Salarzai from UNAMA Spokesperson's Office. Welcome to our weekly press conference this morning. We are very pleased to be joined today by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)…

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) began helping Afghan people in 1979 from Pakistan, providing medical and surgical assistance to the war-wounded in Peshawar and Quetta. Since 1987, the ICRC has been present in Afghanistan. Today, with…

Project title: Promote Peaceful Coexistence of People and Communities that Have Been Divided by a History of Conflict Location: Shoulgara District - Balkh Province (Afghanistan) Donor: ARD-LGCD/USAID Implementing Agency: Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED) - Afghanistan Partner Agencies: Afghan Mobile Mini Circus for…

Executive summary Thirty-seven million children living in conflict-affected fragile states remain out of school, denied their right to education and the opportunity to lift themselves and their communities out of an endless cycle of poverty and conflict. With the capacity…

DUBLIN, Ireland, May 30 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency welcomed the adoption in Dublin Friday of an international treaty aimed at ending the manufacture, use and stockpiling of cluster bombs, which continue to cause civilian casualties years after…

Danish Demining Group has introduced a new tool in the fight against mines in Afghanistan - the Minewolf - an armoured bulldozer guided by remote-control with the capacity to increase both safety and speed. In the beginning of June Minewolf…