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Ankara, 17 March, 2004— A regional conference on small arms proliferation taking place in the Kazakh commercial capital, Almaty, focusing on problems surrounding the illegal trade in weapons in Central Asia, is proceeding as expected, […]

Kabul, 16 March, 2004— Following a series of serious human rights abuses in the Daikundi district of the central province of Oruzgan, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC0) said factional rivalries continue to remain […]

Ankara, 8 March, 2004— Efforts by the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to assist hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees living in Iran to repatriate to their homeland are continuing. […]

Kabul, 7 March, 2004— As Afghanistan prepares to commemorate International Women’s Day, the senior United Nations envoy to the country today deplored recent violence against girls’ schools – institutions that were banned under the fallen […]

Washington, 5 March, 2004— When former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs Jim Woods succumbed to cancer February 12, his friend and colleague Ambassador Herman Cohen said, ”I lost a friend and partner, […]

Islamabad, 1 March, 2004— The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is set to resume on Tuesday a repatriation process for Afghan refugees in Pakistan that was suspended last November following […]

Washington, 26 February, 2004 U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell presented the State Department’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2003 on February 25 saying that the reports ”reflect the deep dedication of the […]

Kabul, 20 February, 2004— The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has announced that it has made progress in demobilising child soldiers in Afghanistan, an initiative targeting an estimated 8,000 such children in the country. Over […]