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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