Rapports

The State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) issued a fact sheet on March 6 detailing the Bureau's $174.5 million in contributions to assist Afghan refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs). According to the fact sheet, PRM has obligated…

TALKING POINTS Afghanistan to Commemorate International Women's Day Saturday 8 March is International Women's Day. Here in Kabul from 9:30 a.m. to 12.30 pm this day will be commemorated at the main Loya Jirga Tent in the Kabul Polytechnic. In addition…

Despite progress in some sectors since the overthrow of the Taliban, intimidation and violence against Afghan women continue unabated in rural regions where their situation remains unchanged, according to a new report by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. But despite the…

KABUL, 6 March 2003 - A new partnership between the Afghan Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Women's Affairs and UNICEF is to be launched on Saturday 8 March - International Women's Day - to produce the country's first…

President's Statement There is a consensus in Afghan society: violence as a means of compelling the majority to submit to the will of a few isolated individuals must end. National reconciliation and respect for fundamental human rights will form the…

Afghan kids to be taught the principles of human rights in effort to heal wounds of war and unite the country. By Sayed Abdullah in Kabul (ARR No.50, 28-Feb-03) Afghanistan, conscious that human rights are not deeply rooted in its conservative…

United States Agency for International Development Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Office of Transition Initiatives Program Description USAID/OTI's program goal is to support the process of recovery, rehabilitation and political development in post-conflict Afghanistan. Working with a number of…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb 26 (UNHCR) - Afghan refugees should have a chance to exercise their right to return home, said the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sergio Vieira de Mello, as he visited a UNHCR-funded legal aid programme…

On the occasion of the Visit to Japan of President Karzai of the Transitional Administration of Afghanistan (provisional translation) Mr. Hamid Karzai, President of the Transitional Administration of Afghanistan, visited Japan at the invitation of the Government of Japan on this…

Assistance Projects Utilizing ODA for Post-conflict Recovery and Highly Appreciated Projects with Visible ResultsSecond Middle East Division Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1. Introduction At the International Conference on Reconstruction Assistance to Afghanistan, Japan announced that it would provide up…