Rapports

Recent attacks on minorities documented   (New York, October 7, 2001) Human Rights Watch warned today that the potential for ethnic violence in Afghanistan is likely to rise as armed conflict between the country's warring factions escalates. In north-central Afghanistan, ethnic Hazaras have been…

On average, one in every two children is malnourished, and one in four children is destined to die from preventable causes before the age of five. ISLAMABAD, 2 October 2001 - For most people, winter is a predictable event that…

London (dpa) - Five million Afghanis face starvation this winter following the pull-out of aid personnel as a result of security fears, a senior United Nations aid official said on Monday. Speaking from Islamabad Peter Goossens, deputy head of the World…

(In July, Refugee Reports staff writer Hiram A. Ruiz completed his second site visit to Pakistan this year. He visited recently arrived refugees, "long-term" refugees in camps, and urban refugees living in Peshawar and Islamabad. He…

ASA 57/002/2001 123/01 With only months to go before the mandate of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) expires its job in East Timor is far from complete. Law and order is barely maintained; justice is not being…

ECOSOC/5962 GENEVA, 12 July (UN Information Service) -- The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) this morning continued its annual review of humanitarian issues, with a panel discussion on natural disaster preparedness and response measures at which experts contended that advance planning,…

Dateline to Disaster 1998/1999: winter rains fail throughout Afghanistan 1999/2000: second consecutive failure of winter precipitation provokes Afghanistan's worst drought on record April-May 2000: hot dry conditions in northern Afghanistan severely damage wheat crop June 2001: FAO/WFP Assessment reports that Afghanistan's harvest has almost totally…

SC/7086 4339th Meeting (AM)* In Presidential Statement S/PRST/16, Council President Stresses Pandemic's Potentially Damaging Impact on Peacekeepers' Health Welcoming the successful holding of the just-concluded General Assembly special session on HIV/AIDS, the Security Council stressed this morning that the pandemic may pose a…

Islamabad, Pakistan, June 6, 2001 The three-year drought has devastated communities in northern Afghanistan, leaving people at risk of starvation with coping mechanisms nearly exhausted, according to an assessment released today by Save the Children, a leading international child development…

By Jack Redden ISLAMABAD, June 6 (Reuters) - The body coordinating almost all assistance to Afghanistan warned on Wednesday the policies of the ruling Taliban could bring the entire humanitarian aid programme to a halt. "How are we going to continue…