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UNAMA: Salam Alaikum, Subh ba Khair and welcome to UNAMA's regular Monday press conference. My name is Aleem Siddique from UNAMA Spokesperson's office. We are joined this morning by guest speakers both from the United Nations Development Fund for…
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WOM/1670 Commission on the Status of Women Fifty-second Session 10th Meeting (AM Note Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) Long Way from Being Implemented; Efforts to Strengthen Women's Role in Sudan, Sierra Leone, Burundi Highlighted Women must be allowed to participate fully in peacebuilding and…
Afghanistan
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…
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Latest Developments The Iraq Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP) for 2008, which seeks US$ 265 million for humanitarian action inside Iraq, was launched in Baghdad on 12 February. The full appeal can be seen at www.humanitarianappeal. net A flash appeal was…
Afghanistan
A/HRC/7/27 HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Seventh session Agenda item 2 Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan and on the achievements of technical assistance in the field of human rights* Summary The present report, submitted pursuant to…
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1. Background On 15 November 2005, the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) hosted a Nordic/Baltic conference on 'Peacebuilding in Afghanistan: How To Reach the Women', in cooperation with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The conference set out to provide…
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Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC The U.S. Department of State salutes Roots of Peace, a non-governmental organization that turns minefields into productive farmland, for building a new school on a former battlefield near the Bagram air base in Afghanistan.…
Afghanistan
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…
Afghanistan
Summary This paper outlines urgent action necessary to address immediate challenges in Afghanistan and to avert humanitarian disaster. It does not seek to address all issues of concern but focuses on essential policy change in development and humanitarian spheres. While aid…
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New York, 30 January 2008 - Ms. Coomaraswamy, Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Children and Armed Conflict presented the Annual Report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council on Children and Armed Conflict (A/32/609-S/2007/757) during a press conference…
