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SECURITY Procedures for Protecting Afghan Civilians Adequate, Say U.S., NATO * Report on the Situation of the Displaced & the Conflict between Kuchis and Hes-E Dowom-E Behsud District * Afghan boy ducks being used as suicide bomber GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS World Drug Report – 2007 Aid failings’ hit Afghan progress * Can Incoming Prime Minister Gordon Brown Defeat The Taliban? – More British Troops Now In Afghanistan than In Iraq - Taliban Using Civilian Grievances to Their Advantage Human Rights AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL - Afghanistan: Mounting civilian death toll – all sides must do more to protect civilians Rule of Law India in efforts to revamp Afghan judiciary INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Urban Development 320 uplift plans on the anvil for four Northern provinces EDUCATION, CULTURE AND MEDIA Culture Open Letter from the Society for the Preservation of Afghanistan’s Culture and Heritage (SPACH) to President Karzai * Cars, not war, may finally topple Afghan minarets HEALTH Afghans Face a Loss of Health Care Medical Teams Scale Back As Attacks on Them Rise * Italian medical agency to reopen hospital in Kabul AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Agriculture Improved Wheat Seeds and Fertilizers Distribution and Community Development in Afghanistan – A Success Story SOCIAL PROTECTION Afghan Women Entrepreneurs: At the Crossroads between Globalisation and Local Traditions Scores of people killed, wounded in floods in Afghanistan ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE Private Sector Development and Trade Afghanistan Investment Support Agency * Afghans Primed For Mortgage Revolution * Exhibition of Hand Made Products in Kandahar in July 2007 * Afghanistan: rush to WTO membership could endanger development CONTENTS CONTINUED The German Ambassador in Kabul, Dr Hans-Ulrich Seidt, buying fresh fruit at a local market in Makroyan
SECURITY Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief Protecting Afghan Civilians: Statement on the Conduct of Military Operations * Bus blast strikes fear into Kabul * Nine Afghans, two foreign soldiers killed in attacks * Demonstration Resolution - 13 June 2007, Bamyan Province * U.S.: NATO has intercepted Iranian arms Border Regions Border Management Cooperation in Drug Control between Afghanistan, Pakistan GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Local Governance Workshop in Kunduz INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Air Transport Afghan Airports to Be Reconstructed EDUCATION, CULTURE AND MEDIA Culture On this Mother's Day in Afghanistan hundred of women's voices were heard in Kandahar - Women in Kandahar Advocate for Peace * Afghanistan - rediscovered treasures Media Thriving yet threatened - Legal and illegal attacks on Afghanistan's press HEALTH Government of Japan Provides US $4.2 Million to Support Maternal and Child Survival in Afghanistan * Bayat Foundation to Lay Cornerstone for 50-Bed Zahra Bayat Women's Hospital in Dai Kundi * UK Government International Development Committee - Press Notice 34, Session 2006-07 - NEW INQUIRY: MATERNAL HEALTH AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Rural Rehabilitation and Development Global Partnership for Afghanistan Awarded €674,000 European Union Grant to Develop Nurseries, Orchards and Marketing Capacity for Afghan Fruits and Nuts in Logar, Paktya and Wardak Provinces SOCIAL PROTECTION Almost One In Four Young Afghan Children Forced To Work, Says UNICEF * Afghanistan’s Beggar Children Working the Streets * ICRC concern over humanitarian condition in Afghanistan * Announcement: Special Capacity-Building Grants * Recruiting Taleban 'child soldiers' ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE The Aid Relationship in Afghanistan: struggling for government leadership CONTENTS CONTINUED Job Opportunity – AREU require a Communications Editor based in Kabul * Afghan Spring - A Journey among Suicide Bombers, Feminist Governors, and Acres and Acres of Poppies
SECURITY Sophisticated bomb found in Kabul * Afghanistan’s President Escapes Rocket Attack * British soldiers attacked by Taliban * GRAVE RISKS IN A WAR ZONE - Afghan journalist killed for giving voice to women * Iraq-style bomb found in Afghanistan * Security Monthly Review – May 2007 Police and Army Afghan national police dying at record rate * Afghan National Army Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups (DIAG) Website on Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Counter-Narcotics The Political Economy of Narcotics and Counter-narcotics in Afghanistan * ANDS Sub-National Consultation Opened in Kapisa (04 June 2007 - 06 June 2007) INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Telecommunication Minister of Communications and IT receives Ambassador of US EDUCATION, CULTURE AND MEDIA Education and Training Afghanistan’s first youth parliament to meet 10 – 14 June Culture Afghanistan Exhibition Provokes Questions Media Afghanistan Foreign Press Association Journalist, Shokiba Sanga Amaaj from Private TV Channel Shamshad TV Killed In Her Home * AfghanWire release Podcast #8 (Jere Van Dyk) HEALTH Afghanistan: UN, Government to Boost Help for Mine Victims AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Avian Influenza Response Programme SOCIAL PROTECTION Meeting looks at balance for Afghan return amid country's constraints * Iranian Deportations Raise Fears of Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE Government Finance and Revenues Kabul restaurant stays sealed amid tax row Private Sector Development and Trade Afghan Jobs - www.jobs.com.af CONTENTS CONTINUED LSE Alumni: the Afghan Chapter * Event – Meeting of the Afghan Students Association UK * Political Parties * Recent Publications from the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
SECURITY Connection between Drugs and Conflict Must Be Addressed In Afghanistan, Says UN Official to NATO Parliamentarians * Ahmed Rashid on the Taliban in Kunduz - 'Germans Will Have To go On the OffensiveUprising Against National Interests in Jawzjan * Barney Rubin strongly recommends subscribing to the Afghanistan Security News – a New Newsletter Police and Army Prince Harry may train Afghan Army soldiers * EU sees Afghan police trainers covering hotspots * Demand Increases for Women to Join Afghan Police GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Public Administrative Reform World Bank Provides US$133.8 Million in Grant Support to Afghanistan Human Rights Amnesty International Report 2007 – the State of the World’s Human Rights – AFGHANISTAN INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Communications Youth Employment Network - Y E N - A F G H A N I S T A N Workshop on Connecting Communities through Community Broadcasting and ICTs - Community Radio and development in Afghanistan EDUCATION, CULTURE AND MEDIA Education and Training Wais Faizi School for Boys and Girls Eserak, Afghanistan Culture NEW BOOK: The cultural heritage of Afghanistan (Il patrimonio culturale dell'Afganistan) Media Afghanistan Work by Paula Lerner Wins: Px3 Paris - American Photography – Griffin Museum - Webby Award HEALTH How to study anatomy with a corpse? AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Agriculture Afghanistan Gets a National Seeds Secretariat SOCIAL PROTECTION Update on PARSA’S Initiative to Create Change in the Orphanage System in Afghanistan * Ambassador Said T. Jawad Applauds ASCHIANA Foundation and Germany for their Contributions to Afghanistan ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE Government Finance and Revenues Growth Sputter CONTENTS CONTINUED UNHAS New Weekly Flight Schedule Effect June 10th * Job Opportunity with ANSO who Require a National Counterpart Assistant
SECURITY Bush to Urge NATO to Commit More Troops to Afghanistan * Prince Harry May Embark On Secret Afghanistan Mission * Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 10 at Market in Afghanistan * Afghanistan working to end civilian casualties, Karzai Says * Civilian deaths prompt NATO rethink GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Afghan parliament suspends outspoken female lawmaker after critical TV interview Rule of Law KARZAI DENIES NARCO-STATUS, DESPITE THE EVIDENCE - Afghan Regime * Covers for Parallel Power Built On Drug Trade * Afghans still suffering at hands of ousted Taleban INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Telecommunication Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Celebrate World * Telecom and Information Society Day Energy and Water Water Governance Facility Newsletter – May 2007 – Interesting for Afghanistan Natural Resources and the Environment NEPA chief warns to move court against Government EDUCATION, CULTURE AND MEDIA Education and Training Event - Afghan Action Sale of Carpets in Kingston, UK - hand-made by Trainees Culture Stefan’s Diary: Afghanistan – Cooking in the Danger Zone HEALTH Esteqlal Hospital Neonatology Section Opening AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Agriculture Fields of red gold - saffron in Afghanistan SOCIAL PROTECTION US raids made 2,000 Afghans homeless: Red Cross ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE Pakistan derives export earnings from Afghan CONTENTS CONTINUED Jobs Job Opportunity with Action Aid who Require a Country Director based in Kabul * Job Opportunity with Afghanaid – Managing Director based in Kabul * Useful Information – Phone No’s, Accommodation, Restaurants and Food Shops * Royal Geographical Society Photographic Exhibition ‘from Kabul to Kandahar – 1833-1933’ until 1st June 2007
SECURITY Shadow of fear looms over Kandahar after bloody day of Taliban retaliation * Investigation in to Civilian Deaths Concluded * Locals turn on Taliban as civilians die in strikes * Border Clashes Reveal Rifts between Pakistan, Afghanistan * Success and Setbacks Marked in Afghanistan Defense Bulgaria to increase Afghanistan contingent to 400 by June GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Threats to Transition in Afghanistan: Old and New * Better aid and Statebuilding crucial to overcoming Afghanistan’s challenges – Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit - Press Release * Human Rights Serving Afghan victims of torture and trauma INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Extract from the IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AFGHANISTAN COMPACT JOINT COORDINATION AND MONITORING BOARD Annual Report, 1st May 2007 - Kabul, Afghanistan EDUCATION, CULTURE AND MEDIA Education and Training 169 schools in Badakhshan to reopen: Minister Media Kite 'running' in a Kabul graveyard * Afghanistan Independent Kabul weekly re-launched * The death of Ajmal Naqshbandi - The perils faced by fixers, drivers and translators in Afghanistan * Da Pulay Poray – Internews Pak-Afghan cross-border program HEALTH SAF to provide medical aid, establish dental clinic in Afghanistan AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Agriculture First-ever govt-owned fish farm in Parwan SOCIAL PROTECTION Afghanistan opium's child addicts * Burden of History - What has happened to the women of Afghanistan since the invasion in 2001? * 4 killed as Afghan refugees clash with Pakistani forces * Afghan parliament insists on FM's dismissal * IRAN:Afghan Refugees - Pawns in Standoff with West ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE Private Sector Development and Trade Herat falls victim to its own success CONTENTS CONTINUED Books A Political and Diplomatic History of Afghanistan, 1863-1901 by M. Hassan Kakar * New book on Afghanistan by the former special advisor to General David Richards * More about Debbie Rodriguez author of ‘The Kabul Beauty School’. Daily Mail Article - Mother-of-two's transformation in Afghanistan Job Opportunity – Afghanaid Require a Kabul Based Managing Director
SECURITY 21 Civilians Killed in Afghan Airstrike * Afghan upper house backs bill limiting international forces * Afghan senate calls for direct talks with Taliban Police and Army Thirsty to fight, hard to wake up - The US has spent $2bn creating an anti-Taliban force, but the shock of barracks life is creating its own issues GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Rule of Law EU Press Release following Europe Day and today’s meeting of EU-HoMs with President Karzai INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Telecommunication UAE telecom giant to launch Afghan operations by July EDUCATION, CULTURE AND MEDIA Education and Training Grant to Kabul University – Inaccurate Report * British University assisting Kabul University * Fulbright Fellowship Competition for 2008-9 HEALTH Cleft Palate Clinic in Kabul - One day outpatient clinic * State of the World’s Mothers Report Issued 8th May 2007 by Save the Children – Millions of Children Still Dying Each Year Despite Availability of Proven, Low-Cost Interventions that Could Save Their Lives * International Midwives' Day marked in Kabul AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Rural Rehabilitation and Development MRRD: 17 Development Projects for 7 Provinces SOCIAL PROTECTION Oxfam briefing: Prioritising people in the quest for peace – the urgency for state-building from below in Afghanistan * UN Concerned Over Deportation of Afghans from Iran – Spokesman ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE Private Sector Development and Trade Afghanistan: World Bank Country Director Sees ’Staggering’ Changes CONTENTS CONTINUED Ambassador Samad on the current situation in Afghanistan * Job Opportunity – AREU Require a Programme Support Officer * Ashraf Haidari, Policitcal Counsellor at the Embassy of Afghanistan – put your Questions * Inaccurate Information? - Shades of Truth: An Account of a Kabul School Is Challenged * UNHAS – New Address
SECURITY Protesters block Afghan road after coalition troops kill civilians * Unpopularity of Karzai government threatens Afghanistan effort, Holbrooke warns * Freed French aid worker thanks Taliban for her release * In Afghan village, a Taliban challenge * Man Said to Be Bin Laden Aide Detained by U.S. * Ankara Declaration GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Human Rights The Afghanistan government must respect and pay attention to victims and those who suffered losses due to horrific crimes committed during war and oppression INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Telecommunication First Local Fixed Service Provider (LFSP) in 21 Districts of Balkh, Juzjan and Kunduz Provinces EDUCATION, CULTURE AND MEDIA Education and Training $5.5 million grant for Kabul University Media Media at risk under new Afghan law - Please make those calls! don't let this happen! Internationals, where are you? Afghanistan: Ex-Minister Sees Growing Gap between Public, State * Killers and censors bring fledgling media under fire from all sides – US and Kabul officials get tough with journalists amid growing insurgent violence * Journalist's Death Casts Long Shadow Over Afghan Government HEALTH "Innovations in Family Planning: The Accelerating Contraceptive Use Project in Afghanistan" AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Agriculture Fruit Crop, Nut, Orchard, Grape and Pomegranate Specialists – (International and National Positions) SOCIAL PROTECTION The State of Afghanistan’s Orphanages – Action Needed Now! ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE, PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE Aid Policies Threaten Frontline Services in Afghanistan * Afghanistan Development Forum – Website * Afghanistan Development Forum (ADF) – 29th to 30th April 2007 * Spring Carpet Sale CONTENTS CONTINUED UNHAS News – Unavoidable Change in Weekly Schedule * Lecture – The Daunting Challenges of State Building in Afghanistan
SECURITY Afghanistan's Role in Iranian Foreign Policy * Ten Counterinsurgency Commandments from Afghanistan * Around 200 Taliban 'surrounded': Afghan police * DACAAR thanks local villagers, who defended DACAAR staff during attack GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS * Afghanistan Parliament Commissions List – (Updated) Rule of Law The Situation in Afghanistan: A Re-evaluation Needed – April 2007 * Joint declaration of the Afghan Civil Society Institutions, Human Rights * Organizations and Liberal and National Democratic Political Parties of Afghanistan Human Rights Afghanistan to Decorate Jihadi Leaders - Men accused of war crimes by rights group likely to get medals * Afghanistan: Civilians Bear Cost of Escalating Insurgent Attacks Rising Civilian * Death Toll Points to Taliban, Hezb-e Islami War Crimes * News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty * International - Afghanistan: Taleban attacks against civilians increasing and systematic INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Roads Checkpoint for Herat to Qala-I-Naw highway opens EDUCATION, CULTURE AND MEDIA Education and Training Why can't Afghans find a leader to take us out of trouble like every other country?- a 3rd Year Afghan Student at Brunel University Ponders the role of Education in Producing Future Leaders of Afghanistan * Erasmus Mundus Scholarships for Masters Degree in Europe Media Media at risk under new Afghan law HEALTH Afghanistan Dental Relief Project We Need Your Support Afghanistan’s Health System: On the Road to Recovery? * Afghanistan Health Survey – Joint Media Advisory - Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Ministry of Public Health and the World Bank 23 April 2007 * Afghanistan: UN Official Urges Investment in Women's Health to Stem Maternal Deaths AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Agriculture and Rural Development Collaborative Afghanistan Initiative – Cornell International Institute for Food and Agricultural and Development (CIIFAD) SOCIAL PROTECTION A Caution: to Organizations and Individual’s Donating Directly to Orphanages in Kabul * Afghan refugees forced home, but to what? The European Commission Country Strategy Paper for Afghanistan and National Indicative Programme ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE Government Finance and Revenues Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Added to the List of Countries Eligible for Assistance under the HIPC Initiative Private Sector Development and Trade Afghan Action – Carpet Factory and Training School in Kabul CONTENTS CONTINUED Khalilzad starts job as U.S. envoy to UN * UNHAS New Revised Flight Schedule * World Bank Afghanistan Country Update – April 2007 * Position Opening - Director, Afghan Women’s Design Center * Profile: Stewart of Afghanistan * Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
SECURITY Ex-Taliban Official Calls for Unity Government in Afghanistan * Taliban attacks into Afghanistan curbed: Pakistan Defense Targeting al-Qaida militants in Pakistan * Pakistan army joins tribal fight * Australia increases ISAF commitment * What the government won't tell you: we are losing Afghan hearts * Musharraf will use Taliban to neutralise Karzai GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Human Rights Debunking Bush Administration Bull about Afghanistan INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Energy and Water Information Needed - Solar Power Provision to Rural Households and Microcredit Schemes EDUCATION, CULTURE AND MEDIA Education and Training Afghan schools' money problems Culture Afghanistan's ancient treasures a worrying modern-day trade Media Karzai Assailed After Burial of Journalist Killed by Taliban * In Memoriam: Ajmal Naqshbandi and Sayed Agha * Slain Afghan reporter buried in Kabul * English Translation of the Declaration that the Representatives of Civil Society and Media Organziations issued on April 10, 2007 on the Murder of Ajmal Nazshbandi – Young and Defenceless Journalist * Listen to 98.1 ARMAN FM – Trial live streaming on the Internet from Kabul, Afghanistan * Channel 4 Updates on Afghanistan * Clarification on Lemar/Al Jazeer License from the Ministry of Information and Culture * Press Release - Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture bans the transmissions of Al * Jazeera English on Lemar TV HEALTH Afghanistan’s mentally ill chained up for cure AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Rural Rehabilitation and Development FAO hands over equipment worth US$1.5 million to the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock and to the Afghan Ministry of Energy and Water * Afghanistan: World Bank Provides Further Grant Support to Help Improve Irrigation Infrastructure SOCIAL PROTECTION Physical Rehabilitation Centre for People with Disabilities Inaugurated in Kandahar * Rick Corsino, Country Director for the World Food Programme (WFP) ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE Private Sector Development and Trade A New Calling; In Afghanistan a private mobile phone company is wiring a devastated country--and daring to put women to work CONTENTS CONTINUED Italian aid organization pulls out of Afghanistan * Position Announcement: COMMUNICATIONS & ADVOCACY MANAGER with the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) * Post Conflict Reconstruction Project Events Transitional Peace Building in Afghanistan: Problems and Prospects – Lecture and Discussion * CSIS Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project Event - ‘Does Foreign Aid Really Work?’ - An ODI and Oxford University Press event * Global Monitoring Report 2007: Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile States on the Millennium Development Goals - An ODI and World Bank event * In Memory of Wais Faizi – Website
SECURITY Should the West Negotiate with the Taliban? * 'Walking dead' cross line into Afghanistan to kill * Taliban deploy thousands of suicide bombers: commander Defence From the Front Line Mine Action Land mine accidents drop in Afghanistan * UN Says Land Mines Hampering Afghan Agriculture * Afghanistan Marks International Mine Action Day * Message on the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action Police New training course for ANP in north GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Rule of Law Ismael Khan Criticizes Government Policy INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Telecommunication Telephone Lines for Samangan and Saripul Provinces Natural Resources and the Environment ACSF Environmental Protection Committee Meeting with Environmental Prevention Commission of the Parliament EDUCATION, CULTURE AND MEDIA Education and Training Associate Parliamentary Group for Afghanistan * Dedicated English teacher blazing trails in Kandahar Media AfghanWire releases two podcasts today at www.afghanwire.org Statement on the Draft Media Law HEALTH Abbott Fund Provides Vital Medical Care to Afghan Women * ‘Safe Motherhood in Developing Countries’ * WHO to launch first essential medicines list for children AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Rural Rehabilitation and Development Counterpart International distributes 40,000 copies of the Afghan Constitution around the Country SOCIAL PROTECTION Despite bumper grain crop, 33 countries in food crisis: UN Surge in Number of Afghans Seeking UN Help to Return from Pakistan * IOM - Rapid Delivery of Blankets for Flood Victims * Interview with Sarah Holewinski from the Campaign for Innocent * Victims of Conflict (CIVIC) ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE Private Sector Development and Trade ASYCUDA Implementation in Afghan Customs Department * IFC Develops Afghanistan’s Leasing Sector * Artizan Sarai Launches "Elements For Change" - Afghan Collection – OFFICIAL WEB LAUNCH: April 10th, 2007 CONTENTS CONTINUED URGENT Message from UNHAS – Change of Cell Phone Number * New Online Resource – The Afghanistan Analyst * EU States fail to live up to their promises on aid to world's poor * Event - Winning the Peace: Emerging Perspectives at Chatham House, London * Pakistan gives special welcome to Afghanistan in SAARC * 6.2-magnitude quake hits Afghanistan
SECURITY Afghanistan National United Council's suggestion to the Parliament over the Legalization of the Foreign Forces Presence in Afghanistan * Taliban 'invite' 10,000 Uzbeks to Helmand * Afghanistan’s Wild West * The Truth about Talibanistan GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Public Administrative Reform Symposium hears Afghan aid leaving rural areas behind Rule of Law Governance, Security and Economic Growth: The Determinants of Opium Poppy Cultivation in the Districts of Jurm and Baharak in Badakhshan Anti Corruption Afghan official a convicted trafficker INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Energy and Water The fight to win Kajaki dam - Control of area believed crucial in bid to win Afghans' hearts and minds EDUCATION Education and Training IOM Begins Nationwide Training of School Teachers to Combat Child Trafficking * Millions of Afghan children head back to school Culture and Media Afghan journalists face gravest dangers * Ajmal Naqshbandi father asks media outlets to call his son reporter not translator HEALTH New Polio Drive Begins Across Afghanistan 25-27 March AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Agriculture UN Reports Progress towards Ensuring Developing Countries’ Access to Bird Flu Vaccine Rural Rehabilitation and Development FAO provides Family Nutrition and Integrated Pest Management Training Workshop to Extension workers in order to help 2 000 beneficiaries improving their food security SOCIAL PROTECTION More than 18,000 Afghans return home from Pakistan since start of March * EC contributes €4.75 million to assist Afghans in Afghanistan, Pakistan ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE Private Sector Development and Trade Pak-Afghan businessmen agree to boost cooperation * Entrepreneur hopes to bottle success in Afghanistan CONTENTS CONTINUED Event - Dr. Samina Ahmed of the International Crisis Group will discuss the Crisis Group's recent report on the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan * EVENT - Nowrouz Extravagance – Tuesday 3rd April 2007 – at Imperial College – 5pm-9pm * International Medical Corps Require the following: 1. Country Director, Kabul; 2. OBGYN Trainer; 3. Anaesthetist; 4. Oncologist; 5. Endocronologist; 6. Finance/Admin Officer
SECURITY 58 Militants and Tribes people Die in Fighting in Northern Pakistan * Afghan Victims Go Unnoticed in Kidnap Release * Taleban kill kidnapped Italian’s driver * INTERVIEW-Bhutto warns of Taliban threat to Pakistan * Afghanistan: Kabul's Relations with Its Other Neighbor, Iran Defense Russia Returning To Afghanistan with Not-So-Soft Power * Interview: NATO Commander Discusses Challenges in Afghanistan GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Rule of Law Path to peace, justice in Afghanistan - Healing the wounds of the civil war requires both reconciliation and accountability INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Urban Development Kabul copes with lots of people, little water Natural Resources and the Environment World Bank Monthly Operational Summary EDUCATION, CULTURE AND MEDIA Education and Training Kandahar Women Speak Out – Students Essays and Speeches Written for International Women’s Day Culture and Media Frontline in New York * UNESCO – Culture Section * Afghanistan: Peacemaking in Progress by Video On-line * Internews PACT - “Da Pulay Poray Programme” - A weekly 45-minute programme covering issues straddling both sides of the Pak-Afghan border * Pak-Afghan Relations: People and Politicians – a Report from last week’s Da Pulay Poray Programme HEALTH Afghanistan's silent plague of AIDS * Kabul District: Women in Distress AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Rural Rehabilitation and Development UK Parliamentary - Written answers on 14th March 2007 – International Development – Afghanistan: Opium SOCIAL PROTECTION A nation's women are the casualties after three decades of war ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE Private Sector Development and Trade How You Can Get Involved in Privatization in Afghanistan CONTENTS CONTINUED Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) - Job Vacancies: Female Research Assistants, Political Economy and Governance * Indian `idol' in Afghanistan
SECURITY Video shows Italian journalist abducted in Afghanistan - APPEAL – Please see an appeal for the liberation of Daniele Mastrogiacomo * Suicide bomb kills six in Afghanistan * Beards - and polio - in Taliban country * Support for Taliban gathers momentum in Southern Afghanistan: Troops fighting there will face more violence * Blast levels shops in Kabul, kills 4 * AP Exclusive: Afghan warlord splits with Taliban, hints at talks with Karzai Government * Taleban spread wings in Pakistan GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Human Rights Amnesty Law – Translation * WASHINGTON: Like every country facing the aftermath of civil war, Afghanistan is struggling to balance the need for peace and stability with demands for justice and accountability Land Registration Reversing the Great Afghan Land Grab INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Natural Resources and the Environment Preserving Land and Wildlife, to Restore the Afghan Identity EDUCATION AND CULTURE Afghan Artisans – Sale of Goods – ‘Riches from Afar’ – 17th March * Return of 1,300 artefacts from Swiss Museum to National Museum of Afghanistan HEALTH World Bank Data of the Week – 5th March 2007 * Jinnah Hospital to be constructed in Kabul * ISLAMABAD: under Pak-Afghan Joint Economic Commission, Jinnah Hospital with the estimated cost of 1200 million dollar would be constructed in Kabul AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Agriculture Other Avian Influenza H5N1 Outbreak in Afghanistan SOCIAL PROTECTION Self-immolation by Afghan women rising Afghan women battling repression * Five years after the Taliban were ousted from power in Afghanistan, many women are still facing violence and discrimination ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE Afghan Economy to Quicken, IMF Says, Reducing Opium Dependence CONTENTS CONTINUED APPG - Event at the House of Commons - Challenges and Opportunities for Education in Afghanistan * Event at Portcullis House - Silent Voices: The Women of Afghanistan * MOUNTAINS OF JADE - A trekking in the Wakhan Corridor, Afghan Pamir – August 1st – August 30th 2007 * Kitbag: Herat, Afghanistan * 8/3/2007 Notes from an Independent news and documentary director/reporter/camera woman * UNHCR Afghanistan Country Operations Plan 2007
SECURITY NATO, Afghan forces, in massive offensive in southern Afghanistan * CPJ expresses alarm as Italian reporter goes missing in Afghanistan * Afghanistan Open to Dialogue with Militants * The Source of Instability in Afghanistan * US troops kill Afghan civilians Defence The Development of the Afghan Ministries of Defence and Interior Afghanistan Working Group Public Event – TOMORROW – 8TH MARCH 2007 GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Publication Notice: Special Issue on Afghanistan - International Peacekeeping, Spring 2007. (Vol. 14, No. 1) Anti Corruption World Bank’s Youth Essay Competition on Corruption * Open Letter of Afghan Civil Society Organizations INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Afghanistan’s First Railway! Telecommunication Tenders: Fully Mobile CDMA Network and the Fixed Line Network for Ministry of Communications, Afghanistan EDUCATION Culture and Media Prisons’ chief to handcuff journalists Message from a Freelance Photographer based in Kabul * As Afghanistan Wobbles, No Pictures, Please . . . * AwaNama Productions and Consulting HEALTH UN Health Agency, Partners Launch Final Assault On Polio; Seek Total Eradication AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Rural Rehabilitation and Development Afghan Agricultural Trade Fair – April 22-23 2007 – Kabul SOCIAL PROTECTION First Gender Budgeting Unit Opened in Afghanistan, March 4th 2007 Empowering Women Key to Eliminating Poverty, UN Rights Official Tells Committee ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE Private Sector Development and Trade Afghan Textile Manufacturing Partner * Food Processing Enterprise – Message from the Business Council for Peace (BPeace) * “AfghanMarkSM” Global Trademark Announced Today: New Brand Certifies Better * Pay, Working Conditions, Access to Education, Literacy Training and Health Care for Afghan Women Carpet Weavers CONTENTS CONTINUED Attorney for Accounting and Auditing – Afghanistan
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SECURITY Al Qaeda Chiefs Are Seen to Regain Power * Bush, NATO, planning spring offensive in Afghanistan Police and Army Bolster the Afghan National Army GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Public Administrative Reform Reform and Function - Rebuilding Afghanistan won't be possible without efforts to keep corruption in check Rule of Law Dozens of Guesthouses Raided by Afghan Authorities – Suspected of Serving Alcohol – 14 people arrested including Five Foreigners * A parliamentary resolution on immunity for war crimes has the country in an uproar * TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN AFGHANISTAN; END OR NEW BEGINNING? - An Analysis on the Implications of Transitional Justice on Afghanistan's Passage towards Stability * Afghans remember civil war massacre and call for justice * Afghan warlord fails his appeal INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Natural Resources and the Environment Afghanistan Geological Survey Website EDUCATION Education and Training Afghanistan Institute of Business Management Opened in Mazar * Netherlands Weighs Financing Koran School in Afghanistan HEALTH Afghanistan bans poultry imports * Polio, Tetanus and Measles Vaccinations in Kandahar AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Rural Rehabilitation and Development 34m saplings to be planted this year SOCIAL PROTECTION Press Conference - Margareta Wahlström, Assistant Secretary-General for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Kabul, 21 February 2007 * Pakistan to close its oldest Afghan refugee camp by March 15 * Afghan women grow trees to lift their own lives * Kidnapping of Women in Takhar * Over 2 Million Afghan Refugees Registered In Pakistan, UN Refugee Agency Reports * New UN Interactive Website Seeks To Combat World Hunger ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE Private Sector Development and Trade Doing Business in Afghanistan: the latest World Bank report CONTENTS CONTINUED Two Positions with Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) * Trafic de drogue: les routes des opiacés afghans * ISAF HQ - Behind the Scenes – Not to be missed on BBC 2 – 28th February BBC 2 – 7 pm * UK PM and President Karzai in Talks * FATA will be incorporated in NWFP, says Musharraf * New Field Report and Case Study from Afghanistan - Countering the Insurgency in Afghanistan: Losing Friends and Making Enemies & War Zone Hospitals in Afghanistan: A Symbol of Wilful Neglect
SECURITY Afghan Soldiers to Undergo Training in Bulgaria * FACTBOX-Military deaths in Afghanistan * US 'not to repeat Afghan errors' * NATO says Taliban cleared from Afghan dam * Hundreds of Taliban massing to attack dam: official Defence Karzai bids for peace in furore with London * Statement from an Afghan government official refuting some of the claims of the article above and specifically in relation to Jawed Ludin Police and Army ANALYSIS-New U.S. emphasis on Afghan forces vital but risky GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Crisis States Research Centre - The missing ingredient: Non-ideological insurgency and state collapse in western Afghanistan, 1979-1992 Rule of Law Message from Country Director of Internews Afghanistan * Afghanistan: EU Aid Targets Justice System Human Rights Amnesty Before Justice * HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH - Afghanistan: Slow Progress on Security and Rights - Kabul, Donors Should Focus on Accountability and the Rule of Law INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Telecommunication Call for Case Studies on CMCs and/or Telecentres by UNESCO EDUCATION Education and Training AMN Institute Launches in Kabul * First-ever girls' school planned for Zabul HEALTH Seven Children die in Bagram District in Parwan * HIV in Asia, the role of Afghanistan's heroin AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Rural Rehabilitation and Development As Aid Runs Out, Afghan Farmers Return to Poppy * MRRD Creates Huge Employment Opportunities in Kandahar Province SOCIAL PROTECTION Smuggling Afghan Children * Children of Conflict - Series of Documentaries to be Aired on Al Jazeera – English - Exploring the lives of Children in War Zones ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE Private Sector Development and Trade Security Problems for Afghanistan truckers driving between life and death CONTENTS CONTINUED Afghan Research and Evaluation UNIT (AREU) is looking for an intern to work in Kabul * Event in Washington, DC - Twenty-First-Century Peace Operations - A joint USIP-Henry L. Stimson Center public event * Online Guide to Trekking in the Wakhan and Afghan Pamir * Announcing a Trip to Aschiana Center, Kabul, Afghanistan August 11 through 26, 2007
SECURITY Terrain Analysis of Afghanistan * Interested in Afghan security matters? * Bush to seek $245 billion more for Iraq, Afghanistan this year and next Defense McNeil takes over command of NATO troops * BBC News Q&A: Your Afghanistan questions * Setback for General who put his faith in peace deals GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Gender Outreach to Afghan Women Guide by Counterpart International Rule of Law Afghanistan: Amnesty Bill Could Threaten Faith in Democracy * Wrong Model for Afghanistan Human Rights High Commissioner Expresses Concern over National Stability Plan Passed by Afghanistan’s Elected Representatives of the People INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Telecommunication Two Regional Telecommunications Licenses Issued by Ministry of Communications to Establish Rural Communication Services EDUCATION Education and Training Counterpart Completes Regional NGO Law and Communication Training Series Culture Afghan Art Undergoes a Revolution HEALTH Quick action urged on Afghan drugs to head off AIDS * Afghan Red Crescent, Italian Red Cross and Senlis Council open drug addiction care and treatment centre in Kabul * Defining Conflict and Its Effects on Health - Johns Hopkins University/U.S. Institute of Peace Task Force on Public Health & Conflict Symposium Series AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Rural Rehabilitation and Development World Bank - Afghanistan Rural Development SOCIAL PROTECTION Girls Are Bought and Sold In Herat ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE Private Sector Development and Trade Private sector investment reaches $4.5b in 5 years * Investing in Afghanistan CONTENTS CONTINUED The Road to Helmand * FFDO and NGLS Launch First Issue of 'The Road to Doha' Monthly Newsletter
SECURITY Iranian Involvement in Afghanistan * In remote Afghan camp, Taliban explain how and why they fight * Fugitive warlord claims U.S. facing Soviet-style defeat in Afghanistan * Afghan Ambassador Predicts a 'Bloody Spring’ - Afghanistan’s ambassador to the U.S. expects fresh American funds to help fight a resurgent enemy Police Chief cracks down on Kandahar police - Officer arrested, probe launched after rampage against civilians * Afghanistan: Local leaders offered the chance to recruit their own police force GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Faster, better rebuilding to be focus of high-level Afghanistan meeting in Berlin Public Administrative Reform Event at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London - Failing to Change the Rules: Local Government and State-Building in Afghanistan Rule of Law UK doctors back licensing Afghan opium trade Anti-Corruption More diplomats for Afghanistan - Taleban insurgents are becoming more INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Telecommunications Invitation to Bid for Establishment of National Data Centre in Kabul by the Ministry of Communication Natural Resources and the Environment Steps needed to protect wildlife EDUCATION Education and Training Taliban plan 'education offensive' in Afghan fight * Afghanistan dismisses Taliban vow to open schools Culture German-Afghan Football Project organizes Training Camp in Jalalabad HEALTH Inauguration of Imam Sahib District hospital in Kunduz Province * UN Sends Medicine to Fight Infections Brought On By Deadly Cold Snap in Afghanistan AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Rural Rehabilitation and Development Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation launches Horticulture and Livestock Project SOCIAL PROTECTION Aid Given To 500 Female Widowers in Ghazni ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE Private Sector Development and Trade Women's Business Association Grant Program for 2007 CONTENTS CONTINUED Ludin new ambassador to Norway * ASCHIANA – Fund-raising Event Valentine Party in London * Tearfund Require for AFGHANISTAN (Kandahar): AREA CO-ORDINATOR
SECURITY Defence Baitullah vows ‘bloodier’ spring offensive in Afghanistan * At Border, Signs of Pakistani Role in Taliban Surge * Afghan FM Rules Out Using Afghanistan as Base for US Attack on Iran * 3 Commando: Hunting the Taleban GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS US nominates envoy to Afghanistan * Pace Says Colombia Model for Afghanistan * Conspiracy reports baseless, says Ludin * Karzai sacks aide amid plot rumours Anti-Corruption TIRI MEDIA RELEASE - Post-War Reconstruction Aid - Risks Fuelling More Conflict * Justice often carries a price in Afghanistan - Corrupt courts make the Taliban, weapons all the more appealing INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Energy and Water CVS of Afghan Experts Needed For Power Project Urban Development Fourteen provinces to get water projects soon EDUCATION Education and Training Taliban to open schools in Afghanistan Culture Afghan Artists in Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan HEALTH Avian Flu Prevention in Afghanistan * New UN Partnership Launched to Speed up Medical Aid in Emergencies around the World AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Rural Rehabilitation and Development MRRD builds a bridge in Balkh SOCIAL PROTECTION Aid failures are killing UK soldiers in Afghanistan, think tank claims ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE Private Sector Development and Trade The Mysteries of Kabul CONTENTS CONTINUED Audio Slide Show: Portrait of Kabul * New Website – Message from Mirwais Nahzat * EC vows more help for Afghanistan * A Picture of Afghanistan in Words – Some Thoughts of an Afghan Student Studying at Brunel University * New UK Ambassador as well as USA - Afghan mission is shaken up after Blair tells envoys of his frustration
SECURITY Merkel insists no decision taken to send warplanes to Afghanistan * Locals in Ghowr province turn in illegal weapons Defence Fierce Afghan opposition to Pakistan's proposal to fence and mine the Durand Line * Hillary pushing for troop surge in Afghanistan - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton presses to add troops in Afghanistan * Attacks heat up Afghan-Pakistani border - Coalition troops killed up to 150 Taliban fighters Thursday as they entered Afghanistan from Pakistan Police Statement of Tom Koenigs, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Afghanistan Mine Action Canada to invest in Afghanistan`s minefield clearance and community-led development * UNMACA Achievements for 2006 GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Rule of Law Record opium harvest in Afghanistan may boost heroin smuggling Human Rights * Kunduz residents say human rights count for little after a young girl was allegedly kidnapped for the prize of a fighting dog * Afghan women and children: the left's moral blind spot INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Natural Resources and the Environment Afghanistan: Local Taliban Defeat Raises Hopes for Dam Project EDUCATION Education and Training UNICEF CONTACT HEALTH Cleft Palate Surgeon AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Rural Rehabilitation and Development Accelerating Work on Reconstruction & Development Projects in Kandahar SOCIAL PROTECTION Starving Afghans sell girls of eight as brides - Villagers whose crops have failed after a second devastating drought are giving their young daughters in marriage to raise money for food ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE Private Sector Development and Trade Water plant inaugurated at Bagram airport * ADB promoting increased flow of transit and trade in Afghanistan CONTENTS CONTINUED Audits not released on millions spent on aid in Afghanistan - Millions of aid dollars spent in Afghanistan without any audits released * Events at the Front Line Club
SECURITY Mission: Afghanistan. To be there or not to be there. That is the Canadian question * Saving Afghanistan * US will be defeated in Afghanistan: former CIA hand * Foreign troops will flee Afghanistan: Taliban chief Defence Afghan-Pakistani Bond Steadily Deteriorating - Plan for Border Fence, Mines Seen Deepening Distrust GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Production agricole de drogues illicites et conflictualités intra-étatiques : dimensions économiques et stratégiques Human Rights Only shedding tears is not enough Land Registration Several dead over land dispute in Khost INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Roads Bad Road Conditions of Kabul EDUCATION Education and Training Saudi Arabia donates furniture for schools Culture 'Kabul Express' banned in Afghanistan via Daily News & Analysis (India) HEALTH Independent Lens: MOTHERLAND AFGHANISTAN TO HAVE ITS TELEVISION PREMIERE ON PBS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13 AT 10PM (check local listings) AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) Reintegration Unit SOCIAL PROTECTION Canadian wheelchairs delivered to help Afghan civilians disabled by war CALL FOR BIDS - for a Nation wide Survey on Chronically poor women in Afghanistan ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE Private Sector Development and Trade Microfinance in Afghanistan * Afghanistan to import Pak-made engines * Mottaki: Iran-Afghan trade to hit dlrs one billion CONTENTS CONTINUED HealthNet TPO Require a Malaria Control Program Manager * A selection of tributes to Wais Faiz
SECURITY British soldier killed, three hurt in southern Afghanistan * Failure in Afghanistan may call NATO existence into question – Lavrov * Afghan child killed by NATO soldier * UN criticizes Pakistan mine plan * Tackling the Taliban GOOD GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW Statement of Tom Koenigs, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Afghanistan * “WE COMPLETELY REJECT THE HRW REPORT” INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Strategic Alliance between Afghan/American/Russian Companies to Resume Production in Existing Gas and Oil Fields EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT Release of Radio Sulh (peace) Reporter Abdul Qodoos HEALTH Over 60 New Staff for the Provincial Drug Treatment Projects of the Ministry Of Public Health Receive Training to Tackle Drug Addiction and Related Harm in Their Communities AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT The Counter Narcotics Trust Fund (CNTF) allocates more than US$ 3m for nine Alternative Livelihood and Drug Awareness Campaign projects in an effort to reduce poppy cultivation and consumption SOCIAL PROTECTION Afghanistan's forgotten drought ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT Iran in Afghanistan: Paving with good intentions? CONTENTS CONTINUED Presidency Conclusions of the Brussels European Council (14/15 December 2006) - Declaration on Afghanistan * Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) - The Fifth Edition of the A to Z Guide to Afghanistan Assistance Available Now * CARE require a Program Development Officer/Gender Adviser
SECURITY Karzai’s outbursts strengthen Taleban: analysts * Pakistan aims to enslave Afghanistan, Karzai says * The Taliban are winning the Hearts and Minds in Southern Afghanistan GOOD GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW Afghanistan: Justice for War Criminals Essential to Peace Karzai Must Hold Officials Accountable for Past Crimes * A Majority Feels Frustrated with the Pace of Reconstruction - The Taliban Remain Very Unpopular, Despite Their Military Resurgence * Iran to aid Afghanistan on judicial grounds INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Mining in Afghanistan - Copper bottomed? * Germany constructs road in Southern Afghanistan EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT Exhibition from Kabul to Kandahar - 1833-1933 * Internews Media Review * Exhibition at the Museum of London – Free Dari Tours * Exhibition Held by Brunel Afghan Society at Brunel University HEALTH * State of the World’s Children 2007 * Half of World’s Pregnant Women Lack Access to Skilled Care at Childbirth – UN Agency AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT * US Drug Czar Announces Afghanistan Will Spray Opium Poppies SOCIAL PROTECTION * KHORASAN Newsletter * MEDIA-AFGHANISTAN: Speaking Up Against Domestic Violence ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT * Canadian government suggests rebuilding Afghanistan tough job * Iran Establishes Post Offices in Iraq and Afghanistan * CONTENTS CONTINUED * CV – Amos Johnson Economics Graduate requires Work in Afghanistan * JOBS in Afghanistan * Consultancy Opening - Gender Strategy Development * People Wanted for Work in Badakhshan
SECURITY International Crisis Group - New Report - Pakistan’s Tribal Areas: Stop Appeasing the Militants * All along the Watch Tower: B R I N G I N G P E A C E T O T H E A F G H A N Pakistan Border * Karzai cries during speech, says Afghan children are dying from terrorism and NATO bombs * Canada's Mission in Afghanistan - Pashtuns' Perspective * Control Arms campaign: UN General Assembly votes for historic Arms Trade Treaty * Mussa Qalla Clashes – ISAF Press Conference on Wednesday 6th December 2006 * Southern Afghanistan, Situational Analysis GOOD GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW Afghanistan: UN Envoy Hails Launch of Reconciliation Action Plan * Taking Stock – Dari and Pashtu Versions of the Latest WOMANKIND Worldwide Report on the Situation of Women and Girls in Afghanistan * Afghanistan: 'No easy task' - Mohammad Ramizpoor tells AI about challenges facing human rights defenders in Afghanistan * Living symbols of reform in Afghanistan - Joya is one of Afghanistan's most prominent populists INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES PRESS RELEASE - 7 December, 2006 “Kabul’s environment in pictures” – Opening of the first environmental photo exhibition in Afghanistan EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT Afghan Gold Treasure, Hidden in War, Goes Public in Paris Show * Lorenzo Natali Prize for journalists welcomes applications from Afghanistan - Delegation of the European Commission to Afghanistan * Press Release German-Afghan Football Project organizes D-License Trainer Course in Kabul HEALTH Five day training workshop for twenty five health workers - Upgrading drug treatment and rehabilitation for prisoners AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT World Bank Supports Rural Communities in Afghanistan SOCIAL PROTECTION Afghan Orphans - Orphan Children in Afghanistan - In the words of Amnesty International, Afghanistan is the world’s largest forgotten tragedy * Seema’s Story - One Afghan Woman’s Struggle to Care for 16 Children as her Own Family ENABLING PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT Apprentice Talent Contest Announced For Afghan Businesswomen CONTENTS CONTINUED Roots of Peace Require a Fruit and Nut Marketing Specialist
SECURITY NATO – Activities during November and a link to Riga Summit News * Two Recent Publications on Drugs by PA Chouvy * DynCorps International – Training Police in Afghanistan * Crisis Watch Report No 40 – 1st December 2006 GOOD GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW DEMOCRACY IN THE BALANCE - Living symbols of reform in Afghanistan - Female lawmakers work for, and embody, change * Islamists, Leftists – and a Void in the Center - Afghanistan's Political Parties and where they come from (1902-2006) INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES USAID - Afghanistan Energy Information * Wildlife Conservation Society - Afghanistan Biodiversity Conservation Project EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT Free, Quality Education for Every Afghan Child – Oxfam Briefing Paper HEALTH UN-Backed Strategy Seeks To Develop Powerful Malaria Vaccine By 2025 * Afghanistan and Pakistan try to stop polio on border * AIDS in Afghanistan AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Saffron a good alternative to opium cultivation, Afghan farmers told SOCIAL PROTECTION Humanitarian Agenda 2015 - Principles, Power, and Perceptions * UN Food Agency Teams Up With Islamic Relief Group to Boost Aid for Poor and Hungry * Afghanistan: WFP in race before winter snows and flooding ENABLING PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT Documents related to Second Regional Economic Cooperation Conference, November 18-19, 2006 CONTENTS CONTINUED A new layeha for the Mujahideen * DIHAD – November Newsletter - Unity between Aid Agencies –Umbrella Event that unites the UN and NGOs * Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit Require a Researcher (Economist)
SECURITY NATO Summit - Agenda outline - Summit Meetings of Heads of State and Government - Rīga, Latvia, 28-29 November 2006 * Chirac Proposes Forming Contact Group on Afghanistan * NATO Riga Summit: Let aid agencies do their job in Afghanistan * NATO urged to plan Afghanistan exit strategy as violence soars * Taliban minelaying tactic worries NATO * Afghanistan female legislator attacked, husband killed * Five Years after the fall of the Taliban: Afghanistan and the War on Terrorism - November 2006 * United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) Policy Directive [November 2006] - Gender Equality in UN - Peacekeeping Operations GOOD GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW Drug Industry Threatens to Derail Afghanistan’s State Building * FAO Presents New Approach to Pasture Ownership and Management - Press Release – Kabul, 26 November 2006 INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES * National Consultation Workshop on Draft Forest Law - Press Release – Kabul, 27 November 2006 EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT Children's media * Les Collections Histoire du département d’art d’Afghanistan et du Pakistan - 6 Decembre 2006 - 22 Mars 2007 * Items from Afghanistan's museum in exile to head home * Puppets bring home message to children HEALTH FEB 13 2007 - Documentary on Afghanistan on TV, US * POPULATION: Maternal Mortality Goals Hit by Funds Crunch AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT 10 villages of Pashtun Kohat District in Faryab Province have been provided with 25 Water Points * SOCIAL PROTECTION Afghanistan’s New Beginnings Programme (ANBP) - 26 FORMER COMMANDERS GRADUATE FROM BUSINESS MANAGEMENT TRAINING * Drought forces Afghans to abandon villages says Oxfam Aid to help bridge the food gap this winter ENABLING PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT Refocusing National Assistance to Address Urban Issues: Long- Term Policies Needed for Job Creation in Afghan Cities CONTENTS CONTINUED Institute of Research and Public Policy – Montreal - His Excellency Omar Samad - Ambassador of Afghanistan to Canada will speak on "Afghanistan: A global project in security and development"
SECURITY ISAF Press Conference with Brigadier Nugee, ISAF Chief of Effects – TODAY * Taliban drown our values in sea of blood, say political leaders from the Pashtun tribes * British PM visits troops in Afghanistan * Afghanistan to get bigger army GOOD GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW * Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany – Kabul * Interagency Audit Report On the State Of Afghan National Police INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Afghanistan's Neglected Drought - Increasing violence in Afghanistan has overshadowed hardship caused by drought * 20 Litres of Clean Water a Day for All Is a Human Right - The 2006 Global Human Development Report (HDR), “Beyond Scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis” Launced 22nd November 2006 * House of Lords Questions – 8th November 2006 – HMG’s Written Answers EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT Opportunity to Learn about Afghan Culture, Basic Dari or Pashto and Take Guided Tours of Kabul * Afghan Wireless and Bayat Foundation Sponsor the First Afghan National Basketball Team in the 15th Asian Games Doha 2006 * Afghan History and Culture in Photos HEALTH UNESCO Water Portal Weekly Newsletter No. 164: Water and Children On The Occasion Of Universal Children's Day (20 November) - 2005–2015 Is the International Decade for Action ‘Water for Life’ AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Afghanistan Initiative – Green Afghanistan SOCIAL PROTECTION General Assembly President Urges Action to Help Orphaned Children * Workshop participants for inclusion of disabled in social life
ENABLING PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT THE WOMEN OF KABUL - a Multimedia Feature – Five Women Entrepreneurs tell their Stories CONTENTS CONTINUED AFGHANISTAN REVEALED – FILM SHOWING This Friday 24th November 7pm Gandamack Lodge, Kabul with Writer and Producer Richard Mackenzie Available to Answer Questions * Ministry of Public Health Resource Directorate require a Liaison Officer for Paktia UNHAS Message to their Flight Users * Third Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board Meeting
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Channel 4 News Interviews Lieutenant General David Richards * Press Communiqué - NATO’S AFGHANISTAN MISSION IS IN TROUBLE * USIPeace Briefing - Afghanistan Five Years Later: What Can the United States Do To Help? Beth Ellen Cole and Kiya Bajpai - November 2006 * Afghan government says relations with U.S. unaffected by political shake-ups * General says troops in Afghanistan preserve freedom * UN Security Council Delegation Arrives In Afghanistan with Message of Support for the Afghan People GOOD GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW EU considers greater role in Afghanistan INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES EC funded drinking water supply is reaching 400,000 beneficiaries in drought stricken Afghan districts EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT American University of Afghanistan * Education Project in Afghanistan * Joint Coordination & Monitoring Board (JCMB) – Facts for Journalists - JCMB-Updated November 2006 * mediothek afghanistan Book Fair – at the Foundation for Culture and Civil Society – 11th to 20th November 2006 * Exciting Opportunity for Volunteer Judo Coordinator needed in Kabul * Media Watch Afghanistan, October 2006 HEALTH Perils of Unexploded Remnants of War Stressed In UN Mine Report AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT President Karzai Leaves for India to Attend the Second Regional Economic Cooperation Conference (RECC) SOCIAL PROTECTION Activists to Campaign for Afghan Refugees in Iran ENABLING PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT * IFC Helps Build Afghanistan’s Banking Sector, Smaller Businesses and Women Set to Benefit * Herat – 14th to 17th November 2006 – Conference on Saffron Production in Afghanistan * Arghand – Fine Soaps and Skin Nourishing Oils made from Kandahari Fruits * Herat – 14th to 17th November 2006 – Conference on Saffron Production in Afghanistan CONTENTS CONTINUED An ODI, IDS and IIED Event - Development Horizons: Using the ideas of Professor Sir Hans Singer to help reshape international development policy * Afghanaid Requires a Programme Director and Provincial Advisor * Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Ministry of Public Health Require a Liaison OfficerSECURITY
Four Aid Workers Kidnapped, Five Extremists Arrested in Afghanistan * CIA assesses Afghan leader's troubles Review: His leadership viewed as weak, corrupt * Five Years After the fall of the Taliban: Afghanistan and the War on Terrorism - A public meeting of the Afghanistan Working Group * Turkey opens the 27th Provincial Reconstruction Team * Afghan conflict: Reporter's diary * British and Irish Agencies Afghanistan Group (BAAG) Monthly Review – October 2006 – Extract * Securing Afghanistan's future * US Diplomat: Taleban Not Strategic Threat to Afghanistan GOOD GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW * Afghanistan: UN-backed panel voices alarm at surge in opium cultivation INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Telephone Communications EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT Turquoise Mountain Foundation HEALTH Detailed Information on the - Afghanistan Health Initiative Assessment AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT FAO Press Release – Kabul, 2 November 2006 - Kabul Workshop Concludes with Recommendations for National Strategy for Drought Management in Afghanistan SOCIAL PROTECTION Mobile, mach-speed registration for Afghans in Pakistan ENABLING PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT India to host regional meet on Afghanistan CONTENTS CONTINUED UNHAS Users – NOTE Flight Departure times Kabul-Dubai * 7th – 18th Nov 2006 BEHIND THE HEADLINES – AFGHAN LIVES an exhibition of photographs by Nick Danziger * HealthNet TPO Health Care Support Programme require a Public Health AdvisorSECURITY Taliban seen as cause of civilian deaths * Key international partners discuss Afghan reconstruction and development with ISAF troop contributing Nations * Shock and awe' on Afghan border * Afghanistan: NATO Should Do More to Protect Civilians - ISAF Should Establish Victims Compensation Fund * Taliban plan to fight through winter to throttle Kabul * How the West short-changed Afghanistan * General: 'Mistakes' made in Afghanistan strike * British general says war in Afghanistan ’cuckoo’ * Taliban says no to peace talks with Kabul * President Karzai Assigns an Inquiry Team to Investigate NATO’s Bombing * US Envoy attacks British truce with Taliban * Is NATO Losing the Real Battle in Afghanistan GOOD GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW TRADITION, WAR & FREEDOM - Women and Girls of Afghanistan – A Documentary Film by Zarghona Rassa * Taking Stock Update: Afghan Women and Girls Five Years on – WOMANKIND Worldwide October 2006 * Amnesty International - Afghanistan: the challenges of defending women's rights in Kandahar INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES PRESS RELEASE 30 October , 2006 - Environmental Journalism Training Workshop * Society of Afghan Engineers (SAE) Conference 2006 - Afghan Professionals: The Engineering of Infrastructure, Resources and Human Resources * Afghans calls for faster reconstruction EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT Father of Italian Journalist Launches Appeal * First Parliamentary Reporters Training Starts HEALTH Serve the Essentials: What Governments and Donors must do to improve South Asia's Essential Services * UN Health Agency Calls For Industry Investment in New Diagnostic Tools to Curb TB AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) News SOCIAL PROTECTION New Communication Guidelines for Development Policy unveiled - PRESS RELEASE 06/126e ENABLING PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT Microfinance Services Can Empower Afghan Women, says World Bank report - Some 75 percent of savings and credit services go to women * Trade, Investment, Travel and Tourism in Afghanistan CONTENTS CONTINUED An Online Exhibition to Complement the Forthcoming Afghan Wars Exhibition Which Opened at the National Army Museum on 1 September 2006 * Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
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SECURITY Pakistan’s Balancing Act - Musharraf says he is pursuing Taliban militants, but critics say he is harboring them * United States Institute of Peace - Special Report –October 2006 “Resolving the Pakistan-Afghanistan Stalemate” * Soldiers 'letting off steam' with jet * NATO PA 52nd ANNUAL SESSION TO BE HELD IN Québec City, Canada - 11-17 November 2006 - MEDIA Advisory * Afghans May Back Taliban, General Warns - NATO Chief Tells AP That Afghans May Switch Allegiance to Taliban Unless Lives Improve * Bargains for Peace? Aid, Conditionalties and Reconstruction in Afghanistan Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’ Conflict Research Unit - August 2006 GOOD GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW Losing Afghanistan: The Rise of Jihadistan INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES The World Bank in Afghanistan – Status of Projects – October 2006 * Kandahar Province soon to have 5 large Infrastructure Projects carried out by MRRD and funded by Canada EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT Media Watch Report - Journalism Freedom Report # 15 * Switzerland restores Afghan heritage * UNESCO - Programme for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace: 2007 World Press Freedom Prize * UN Officials Express Condolences for Two German Journalists Killed In Afghanistan HEALTH Traditional Birth Attendants and Maternal Mortality – Lancet Article “Strategies for Reducing Maternal Mortality: Getting on with what Works AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT 40 countries face food shortages worldwide [Extract] SOCIAL PROTECTION Braille, brooms and pasta for needy Afghans ENABLING PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT Afghan bottling plant wins contract to supply water to Coalition troops Afghanistan Coalition Press SECURITY Britain says Pakistan is hiding Taliban chief * Tony Blair Interview on Afghanistan with British Forces Broadcasting * Afghanistan: Five Years Later – by Donald H. Rumsfeld – US Secretary of Defense * Rumsfeld's double deception on Afghanistan * Rubin: Afghanistan at Dangerous 'Tipping Point' * Statement by the Secretary General on Expansion of NATO’s Operation in Afghanistan * NATO Official Says Counter narcotics Strategy Needed to Stabilize Afghanistan * Princess Anne Visits British Troops in Afghanistan * Weapons Collection Ceremony to Be Held In Badakhshan GOOD GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW Karzai for Jirga to Crush Taleban INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Building in the Poppy Fields of Afghanistan EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT Afghanistan: Crossroads of Asia – Event in Birmingham – 2nd 27th October – British Library Travelling Exhibition on the History of Afghanistan HEALTH Global Fund on Aids, TB and Malaria Expected To Approve Almost $1 Billion of Projects Deadly Heroin Overdoses Could Soar With Surge in Afghan Opium Production, UN Warns AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT New Spokesman Office at MRRD SOCIAL PROTECTION 1400 Houses to be Built for Landless IDPS and Returnees in Kabul ENABLING PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT Doing Business Report 2007: Afghanistan Highlights * Afghanistan Investment and Reconstruction Task Force - U.S. – Afghan Business Matchmaking Conference 2006 - October 29-31, 2006 * The Afghanistan Investment Support Agency Presents Investing in Afghanistan: The Heart of Asia - October 29-November 8, 2006 SECURITY War in Afghanistan: Britain's Vietnam * ‘Return of the Taliban’ – PBS News * “Civilian Consequences of Suicide vs. ‘Precision’ Bombings in Afghanistan” * Afghanistan: Taliban Commander says ‘Deal’ not a Blow * Saed Mohammad Nabi sits quietly in the basement of the police station, his arms and legs shackled, a long metal bar linking two sets of battered iron manacles * 12 killed in Kabul suicide bombing * Investigation of Rogue Special Forces Team in Afghanistan GOOD GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW The Rule of Law: Reconciling Religion and Culture in a Constitutional Framework Salzburg Seminar INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Pollution Control and Prevention in Afghanistan - National Stakeholder Workshop for Public and Private Sector EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT Pashto-Pashto Dictionary * Job Announcement – Media Advisor – 1 post * Fixed Lines Launched in Herat HEALTH Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Afghanistan AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT World Congress on Communication for Development - October 25-27, 2006 SOCIAL PROTECTION UN Refugee Agency Meets With Its ‘Vital Partners’ – Non-Government Organizations ENABLING PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT Afghanistan's Booming Economy... * Afghanistan's good news: seeds of economic progress * Useful Website for Procurement of Goods and Services CONTENTS CONTINUED ALL PARTY PARLIAMENTARY CLIMATE CHANGE GROUP (APPCCG) and ALL PARTY PARLIAMENTARY GROUP ON OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT (APGOOD) * Changing Taliban
SECURITY The Peace Agreement in North Waziristan - Islamabad, Pakistan * Contradictions Hint at Division within Neo-Taliban * 5 Afghan women killed in wedding attack * Central Asia Can Do More to Boost Afghanistan’s Recovery, Its Neighbours Tell UN * Sgt. is oldest U.S. woman to die in combat * Death of women’s affairs director in Kandahar – UNAMA Press Briefing – 25th September 2006 * "The Resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan" GOOD GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW Afghanistan: Conference on Islam and humanitarian law INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Impressions of Afghanistan EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT INVITATION FOR TRAINING! - To: All media Outlets * Ariana Radio and Television Network HEALTH HEALTH: Dirty Water Kills 4,000 Children a Day AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT JICA Require a Specialist in the Agriculture Sector to work for the ANDS Secretariat SOCIAL PROTECTION New Research centre provides Afghan perspectives * World Population Report 2006: women migrants' significant contribution to poverty reduction ENABLING PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT Tourism Is Key Way to Bring Wealth From Richest To Poorest Countries – UN Professionals Launch a New Partnership Declaration CONTENTS CONTINUED Skilled Afghan Communication Staff Needed Overseas Travel Insurance Available In Kabul - CV – Feizin Amlani – Background in Education, International Development and Project Management * AREU Require 2 Female and 1 Male Research Assistants for a Study on Second Generation Afghans SECURITY British casualties 'higher than reported' - Soldiers are being patched up and sent back out to fight without the injury being recorded * Violence in Afghanistan is at Its Most Severe since the Fall of the Taliban in 2001: Annan * Photo and Video Report Online - The Return of the Taliban * Bush works to defuse fray between allies Pakistan and Afghanistan * Report: Mercenaries joining Taliban * The Death of an Afghan Optimist GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW ‘Genesis Of A ‘Prince’: The Rise Of Ismail Khan In Western Afghanistan, 1979 – 1992’ - Dr Antonio Giustozzi and ‘The Failure Of A Clerical Proto-State: Hazarajat, 1979 – 1984 by Niamatullah Ibrahimi - September 2006 – Two New Working Papers from Crisis States Research Centre at the London School of Economics INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES New DACAAR training manuals on www.dacaar.org EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT Afghan Communicator has shared photos with you * More Afghan Links - In Search of My Father's Afghanistan by Saira Shah HEALTH Immunization campaign in Afghanistan aims to reduce child and maternal deaths * PRB 2006 World Population Data Sheet: International Migration Is Reshaping United States, Global Economy AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Germany to support infrastructure projects in South East Afghanistan SOCIAL PROTECTION Habiba’s Child Care Centre ENABLING PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT Hinterland Travel Return from their latest Expedition CONTENTS CONTINUED Afghanistan names candidate for UN secretary-general * Ariana Outreach - Afghan And American Sisterhood Award Gala – Honoring - Ms. Sonia Nassery Cole - Afghanistan World Foundation & Ms. Charlie Ponticelli Department Of State Wednesday 4th October 2006 * Friends of Aschiana – Fundraising Event with Music and Refreshments – Tuesday 17th October 2006 * BOOK TO READ!!!! - GIRAFFE by Jonathan Ledgard SECURITY NATO’s highest military body concludes meetings in Poland * Canada Needs More Help Fighting Taliban, Allies Told * 4 Canadians Killed in Afghan Battle * ISAF News Updates and Other Information * Eradication without viable legal alternatives may UNDERMINE STATE BUILDING EFFORTS in Afghanistan GOOD GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW * Afghanistan's Poppy Problem: Karzai's Brother under Drug Suspicion * British-Afghan Women’s Society – URGENT APPEAL TO ALL SUPPORTERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS to Show what is Really Happening in Afghanistan INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES “We Are Happy With This Road!!!!” – NRAP Project EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT Afghan Embassy in US Celebrates the Launch of First Afghan-American Magazine * Multimedia documentation in Afghanistan for Bpeace Interview with Paula Lerner HEALTH Afghan famine looming, British group AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Food System Strategies for Improving Household Nutrition in Afghanistan SOCIAL PROTECTION UNDP Require a Comprehensive Disaster Risk Reduction Programme Advisor, Afghanistan ENABLING PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT Launch of Afghanistan Procurement Directory * The New World - The opportunities in Afghanistan are once-in-a-lifetime CONTENTS CONTINUED Afghanistan, Inc. Updated: A CorpWatch Investigative Report - Contractors in Afghanistan are making big money for bad work * Cordaid require a National Consultant for Evaluation Team * A Basic Economic Guide/Glossary to the Afghanistan National Development Strategy ANDS (August 2006) - Weblink
Issue 32 - 31-8-06
SECURITY
Losing
Afghanistan
* Can NATO bring peace and order to
Afghanistan? Is the rise in violence the result of international
community's greater focus on other conflicts like
Iraq and
Lebanon? BBC Have Your Say Phone Forum
* NATO Struggles to Maintain Control of Southern Afghanistan
* HE President Karzai launches the next phase of Afghanistan’s
battle against illegal narcotics
* Annan Maps Out Ways to Bolster UN Ability to Prevent Armed
Conflict, Save Lives
GOOD GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW
President
Karzai’s New Website
* UN Press Release – Sub-Commission on Promotion and
Protection of Human Rights Concludes Final Session
INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Japan contributes $29 million to two UNDP
projects EDUCATION,
CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
USAID - Education and the Role of NGOs in Emergencies: Afghanistan
1978-2002
* The Boy who
Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan a feature documentary film by Phil Grabsky
*
Herat: from Sharia to Shakespeare
*
Nancy Hatch Dupree Awarded Highest State Medal of Malalai
HEALTH
August, 2006 Update on Partners’ Conference on Behavioral Health Held in
Kabul, May 1-3, 2006 *
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany – Kabul - Press Release -High
Afghan Award for German Head of Chak Hospitals in Wardak
AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT The
Government of Afghanistan’s Counter Narcotics Trust Fund (CNTF) - On the
road to provision of alternative livelihood in Badghis, Baghlan and Takhar
Provinces
SOCIAL PROTECTION
The Long Walk of the Kuchi - A nomadic tribe confronts the latest
chapter in Afghanistan’s tumultuous history ENABLING PRIVATE
SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
Afghanistan – Exhibitions
CONTENTS CONTINUED
Tracing family history and links in
Afghanistan Dominic Medley tracks down the history of his
great-great-grandfather and other connections from the 19th Century
* High Risk Reconstruction
Insurance for High Risk Projects in Afghanistan *
Oxfam Require an Advocacy and Policy
Adviser
SECURITY * “It must be a strange world up there” - An inside view of a coalition air strike * NATO quietly talking with Taliban as insurgents mass for renewed fighting * President Karzai Reaction to the Paktika Border Incident * Pentagon studies examine 'mistakes' in Iraq, Afghanistan - Sources say reviews have found serious deficiencies 'across the board.' * Afghan opium cultivation hits a record * A Self-Defeating War * Panic as Policy GOOD GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW Law, Justice and Human Rights – some useful resources INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Managing Natural Resource Wealth EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT Reporters without Borders/Reporters sans frontiers - Open letter * Information for Nation Building at THE AFGHANISTAN CENTRE AT KABUL UNIVERSITY HEALTH Child Health in Complex Emergencies AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT United Nations gives $11 million for Afghanistan droughts SOCIAL PROTECTION WFP Starts Food Distributions to Survivors of Floods in Eastern Afghanistan ENABLING PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT USAID Alternative Livelihoods Update CONTENTS CONTINUED Kabul Zoo
SECURITY
*
Canadians
toughen border security in Afghanistan
*
Canadian soldier killed in Afghan shooting incident *
A string of intelligence failures *
President Karzai Condemns the Killing of a Woman and Her Teenage Son
GOOD
GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW Karzai: One term is enough - Fortune Exclusive: The first
democratically elected Afghan president suggests he won't run again -- and
gives a frank assessment of his first five years on the job
* A
Pilot for Prison Reform
*
Afghanistan:
Post-War Governance, Security, and
SECURITY
Kabul pod cast with Mark
Laity, NATO's civilian spokesman in Afghanistan *
Establishment of Afghan
Drug Regulation Committee *
Afghan bombing kills 21; Canadian dies *
Oxford
Research Group International Security Monthly Briefing – July 2006 –
Afghanistan * Afghanistan orders Korean Christians
to leave * Kabul's Uneasy Summer
GOOD GOVERNANCE AND RULE
OF LAW
President Karzai
Introduces the Five Remaining Ministers to the Parliament of Afghanistan
for Approval
INFRASTRUCTURE
AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Afghan Capital Faces
Energy Crunch * Afghanistan accepted as ECT
observer
EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA
AND SPORT
UNICEF alarmed as attacks
on Afghan schools rise - UNICEF fears progress in education will be
reversed * The Taliban's War on Education
* New English Language Newspaper *
Afghan Humour HEALTH
Afghanistan: For
Female Pilot, Childbirth Proved More Dangerous Than Flying
* World: Maternal-Mortality Numbers Still Climbing - One in
six Afghan women die during childbirth
AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
New Publications
from the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
SOCIAL
PROTECTION
Pakistan camp bids
farewell to large convoy of Afghans * Freedom is
only won From the Inside: Domestic Violence in Post-Conflict Afghanistan
ENABLING PRIVATE
SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
South Asian Association
for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) – Regional Trade Agreement
CONTENTS CONTINUED
The Second Annual
Kabul Desert Classic AREU Require a Deputy Director for
Administration and Finance SECURITY Afghans speak on foreign troops * NATO Press Release and Ahmed Rashid Article * Ambush in Helmand of UK soldiers * High Level Summary of Requirements Afghanistan Security Services - The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is seeking to put its existing static and mobile security contracts in Afghanistan out for Re-tender * Briefing to the Security Council on Afghanistan by SRSG Tom Koenigs – 26th July 2006 * David Cameron visits British troops in Afghanistan * 600 Taliban killed in bloodiest month for 5 years GOOD GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW * World Bank Monthly Operational Summary - South Asia Region - July 2006 INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Emergency assistance to drought affected communities in Afghanistan EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT * Afghan Resource and Information Centre (ARIC) * Ancient Persian drawing found in Afghan Buddhist cave HEALTH A Report on Involving Women in Afghanistan's Community Health Committees * Afghan Volunteers Needed to help Dentist Setting up a Dental Clinic AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT * New funding allows MADRAC to expand microfinance activities in Afghanistan * FAO tackling new threats to Afghan farmers SOCIAL PROTECTION Afghan Government, UN launch $76.4million drought appeal * The ARTF Expatriate Services Program ENABLING PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT * Economic Brief: The End of the Doha Round – July 2006 * Hinterland Travel – Regular Trips to AFGHANISTAN CONTENTS CONTINUED World Bank Requires a Public Health Specialist * AREU Require Male Research Assistants * Afghan Development Pact Working Well but International Support Still Needed * Media Talk: Afghanistan – Hearts and Minds in Helmand – Transcript of the Forum at the Front Line Club on 25th July 2006 from notes taken by Jeanne Bryer SECURITY Pressure mounts on Karzai as Afghan violence surges GOOD GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW Auditing Afghanistan - Will the committee set up to oversee the aid money coming into Afghanistan have the tools to keep track of a previously chaotic spending process? INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Solar Lanterns – Sometimes the Simplest things are the most Effective EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT Media Talk: Afghanistan - Hearts and Minds in Helmand - £5 - With Jason Burke, Christina Lamb, Najibullah Razaq, and Major General Patrick Cordingley - Moderated by Jane Corbin * Extremists burn girls' school in Nuristan HEALTH The Ancient Healing Art of Yoga AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT A Voice from Kandahar - Guns and Roses SOCIAL PROTECTION Afghanistan: Vice and Virtue Department Could Return - Women and Girls Again at Risk ENABLING PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT Yellow Pages Directory for Business, Products and Services * Afghanistan launch of the UNDP Asia Pacific Human Development Report CONTENTS CONTINUED Women for Women Require a Director – Women’s Rights, Community Outreach, Programming, Advocacy and Fund – Raising – based in Queens, New York * International Vacancy (ArcIMS, ArcSDE & SQL Administrator) with UNDP/AIMS * Two Afghan Expatriates required by Minister Ahady’s Office for the World Bank Managed Afghan Expatriates Program 1. SECURITY Extract of a Report - Adjunct Professor of International Affairs – June 3, 2006 Trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan * Taliban and Ham Sandwiches * Breakdown of foreign forces in Afghanistan * “Projecting Stability” - Speech by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at the “Fundacion para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Dialogo Exterior” (FRIDE) Madrid, Spain -- 10 July 2006 * The "Pakistanization" of the Taliban and a Response 2. GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS The Asia Foundation Announces Agreement With United Nations To Strengthen Democratic Governance In Afghanistan 3. INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Soldiers who went to build bridges fight for their lives * Overseas Development Institute - News Release - More aid is not enough. Will Benn’s White Paper avoid the elephant traps in international development? 4. EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT Initiative to Promote Afghan Civil Society (I-PACS) * Taliban use beheadings and beatings to keep Afghanistan's schools closed 5. HEALTH International Medical Corps graduates dozens from midwife program in Afghanistan 6. AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT US$ 4 million worth of counter narcotics projects to be started 7. SOCIAL PROTECTION Press briefing by Spokesperson Adrian Edwards and by UN agencies in Afghanistan * More Afghan Professionals Returning Home, UN Refugee Agency Reports 8. ENABLING PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT The World Bank in Afghanistan Country Update – July 2006 CONTENTS CONTINUED Message from UNHAS – News and New Flight Schedule * Fellowships for 3 month Course for Broadcasting Journalists to be held in the Netherlands * Survey on post-conflict development work in Afghanistan * Lessons from History? * Earthquake Information 1. SECURITY How to Help Afghanistan - A Global Response to the Crisis * Afghanistan’s New Beginnings Programme (ANBP) – New Director Takes up Office * Ministry of Counter Narcotics Daily Press Briefings 2. GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS DFID's Afghanistan Programme 3. INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Afghanistan Data Center Tender Launched 4. EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT Need any pictures of Afghanistan? AINA PHOTO is your answer * Explosion in university in Afghanistan injures eight female students * Afghan media coverage tests journalists 5. HEALTH Millennium Development Goals Afghanistan Statistics 6. AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Environmental Journalism Training – International Experts Needed 7. SOCIAL PROTECTION UN High Level Group for the Alliance of Civilizations - 17 July 2006 8. ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce (AACC) – Investment & Trade Conference in Washington D.C .– 29th to 31st October 2006 CONTENTS CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT: Aid for the Poor, Not for the Consultants * AES Airfreight Forwarding Services SECURITY New CrisisWatch bulletin from the International Crisis Group – Issue 35 – 1st July 2006 * Ethnic Uzbek Legislator Beaten, Afghans Confirm * NGOs operating in Afghanistan visit NATO * In the face of increasing warfare the international community should go back to the drawing board on Afghanistan * Challenges in Fighting a Global Insurgency * The Calls for Tough Arms Controls – Voices from Afghanistan – Oxfam Briefing Note GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Transitional Governance: From Bullets to Ballots – July 2006 * President Hamid Karzai’s Remarks with Secretary Condoleezza Rice after Their Meeting INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Memorandum of Understanding signed between Iranian and Afghan Ministers on Cooperation in Water and Energy EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT Attempt to Steer the News Backfires in Afghanistan Intelligence Agency Warning Draws Outrage, Ridicule HEALTH URGENT – Invitation for Proposals for Fight against Malaria and TB –– Presentation of Submissions by 14.00 on or Before 5th July 2006 AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT DACAAR trains 460 water and sanitation engineers from all over Afghanistan SOCIAL PROTECTION Where have all the Women Gone - The recent shuffle in Afghanistan’s cabinet is more a “shuffling out” of Afghan women ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT New World Bank Website with Access to Economic and Development Data SECURITY Afghanistan NGO Security Advisors' commentary - Some Comments on NGO security in Afghanistan * United States Institute of Peace Event - Security in Afghanistan: Are We Losing the Peace? Afghanistan Working Group * Civilians caught in Afghan crossfire * Karzai criticises foreign tactics * NATO Secretary General Visits Canada GOVERNANCE, RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Poverty Is the Most Serious and Widespread Human Rights Abuse, UN Official Says INFRASTRUCTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES Kabul Faces Urban Land Crisis, Warns World Bank Report - Informal settlements shelter 80 percent of the city's population EDUCATION, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT 3rd Festival of National Afghan Theatre - 2nd to 7th of September 2006 * A War on Schoolgirls - Unable to win on the battlefield, the Taliban are fighting to prevent half the country's children from getting an education * Catching World Cup Soccer Fever, UN Gives Footballs to Afghanistan’s Aspiring Stars HEALTH UN Agencies Team Up To Tackle Worsening Sexual and Reproductive Health Worldwide AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Afghanistan Water Resources Development Initiative Journal SOCIAL PROTECTION Don't just bitch and moan! Ways to help the Afghans ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT Opportunities in Afghanistan’s Energy Sector – Next Seminar – Thursday September 14th JOB War Child UK seeks Field Director, Afghanistan EVENT Afghanaid – 25th Anniversary Event – 3rd July 2006
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