Rapports

OTTAWA -- International Cooperation Minister, Josée Verner, and Foreign Affairs Minister, Peter MacKay, announced today that the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) will maintain its Afghanistan development funding level at $100 million for 2006-07, bringing Canada's total contribution to over…

Introduction: This report has been prepared on the basis of a study on general status of Afghan women made by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission. Women rights are enshrined in most international human rights treaties to which Afghanistan has joined,…

State's Hughes, Dobriansky cite importance of educating, empowering women By Michael Jay Friedman, Washington File Staff Writer Washington - Female leaders from Afghanistan and Iraq arrived at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on International Women's Day to observe firsthand how the U.S.…

Recommendations - Responses to hunger crises need to be analysed not only on a community and household level, but also on an individual gender level. - Gender consciousness is necessary while caring for the specific needs, capacities, opportunities and risks of…

Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC The Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs has awarded over $1.9 million in grants to non-governmental organizations and UNICEF to clear landmines and unexploded ordnance,…

TALKING POINTS SRSG Tom Koenigs visits Northern Afghanistan The Special Representative, Tom Koenigs, has been in northern Afghanistan over the past couple of days as part of his familiarization with the regions. Last week, as you may know, he was in…

TALKING POINTS UNHCR resumes voluntary repatriation programme from Pakistan The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, will resume its voluntary repatriation programme from Pakistan this coming Wednesday, March 1 after it was stopped during the winter months. UNHCR estimates 400,000 people will return to Afghanistan…

Agreement worth US$ 61 million aims to reduce mortality and illiteracy, improve prospects in 2006. Kabul 27 February 2006 - This week saw the completion of the annual agreement between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and UNICEF, setting out the…

E/CN.4/2006/61/Add.5 COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Sixty-second session Item 12 (a) of the provisional agenda Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Yakin Erturk Addendum*. MISSION TO AFGHANISTAN (9 to 19 July 2005) Summary This report contains the findings of the…

TALKING POINTS London Conference Outcome Today is day six of the Afghanistan Compact. If you have not yet read this document, as well as the accompanying interim Afghan National Development Strategy (iANDS) and Afghanistan's Millennium Development Goals Report, these are available…