Rapports

Afghanistan is one of the countries in the world most plagued by landmines and unexploded ordnances (UXOs). Thirty provinces out of 32 are affected, and some 850 square kilometres, which includes 1,585 villages, are contaminated. Mine related casualties injured or…

SC/7649 Security Council 4695th Meeting (PM) Requests Follow-up by 31 October on Secretary-General's Report Naming 23 Parties Recruiting, Using Children in Armed Conflicts The Security Council this morning called on all parties to armed conflict, who are recruiting or using children in violation…

E/CN.6/2003/4 Commission on the Status of Women Forty-seventh session 3-14 March 2003 Item 3 (a) of the provisional agenda* Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the special session of the General Assembly entitled "Women 2000: gender equality,…

TALKING POINTS Joint Visit of Afghan Human Rights Commission/UNAMA to Herat The Senior Human Rights Advisor is in Herat today. He is there for the second meeting of the joint UNAMA/Afghan Human Rights Commission working group with representatives of the Herat Administration. Among…

GENERAL The Government of RT has introduced new electricity tariffs from 1 January, 2003 of 1.6 dirams (0,5 =A2) per 1 kW/h up to 250 kW/h per month and 2.7 dirams (0,9 =A2) per each additional kW/h. Major political events and…

Press Release SC/7631 Security Council 4684th Meeting (AM & PM) Report Identifies 23 Parties to Conflicts On Council's Agenda That Continue to Recruit, Use Children By naming the parties that continued to recruit or use child soldiers, the international community…

SG/SM/8580 SC/7633 Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to today's Security Council meeting on children and armed conflict in New York: I am grateful to you and the members of the Council for holding this meeting to discuss my…

The State Department's Bureau of South Asian Affairs, and its Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs are partners in initiatives to help Afghan women and children prepare for a better future, according to a fact sheet issued on January…

E/CN.4/2003/39 COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Fifty-ninth session Item 9 of the provisional agenda Questions of the violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in any part of the world Report on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, submitted by Mr.…

Wahida Sadat's sole income comes from a CWS-supported quilt-making project administered by a local Afghan relief organization. Sadat, her husband and five children, ages 1 to 15, are among the 1.5 million refugees who returned in the past year to Afghanistan;…