Reluctant to return
October 22, 2011 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
(IRIN) – Nearly four years ago as skirmishes between troops and Taliban militants drove thousands out of the North Waziristan (NW) Agency on the Pakistan-Afghan border, Kalim Ullah, 40, was among those who left.
This report online: http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportID=94030
Afghanistan’s Top Banker Legs It
July 2, 2011 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
Afghanistan’s top banker, Abdul Qadeer Fitrat, who is alleged to have played a role in the country’s largest financial scandal, has fled to the U.S.
The, now, former-governor of Afghanistan’s Central Bank is holed up in a Northern Virginia hotel. Contacted by phone, Fitrat said he left Afghanistan because his life had been threatened and that the Karzai government was refusing to prosecute those allegedly involved in fraudulent loans.
Source: Forbes
The story of a young Afghan’s 7,150 miles journey
June 28, 2011 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
TEENAGER Gulwali Passarlay has told of his astonishing journey as he fled from war-torn Afghanistan to safety in the UK—travelling alone 7,150 miles, through 10 countries, aged just 12.
Gulwali risked his life and left his family on the harrowing year-long ordeal, which saw him hiding in an engine compartment of a lorry, and crammed into a dangerously overcrowded boat.
Source: The Bolton News
UN workers killed in callous attacks in Afghanistan
April 2, 2011 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
Seven United Nations workers have been executed in the northern Afghanistan city of Mazar-e-Sharif by demonstrators protesting the burning of a Koran at a church in Florida.
Afghan asylum-seekers hit by tighter immigration rules
March 30, 2011 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
(IRIN) – There were fewer Afghan asylum-seekers in 2010 and this could, in part, be due to tighter immigration controls in destination countries, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Returnees.
The number of Afghan asylum-seekers in “44 industrialized countries” (mainly European countries, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the Republic of Korea) dropped by 9 percent in 2010 compared to the previous year, but Afghanistan still produced 7 percent of the world’s total number of asylum-seekers, and was second only to Serbia, according to UNHCR.
UN urges more action on child rights
February 9, 2011 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
(IRIN) – All parties in Afghanistan should do more to protect children in armed conflict: Taliban insurgents must stop recruiting child soldiers or using them as suicide bombers, while the government must clamp down on the recruitment and/or sexual exploitation of boys by pro-government militias, the UN and human rights organizations say.
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In Afghanistan, Cricket Is the New Revolution
January 26, 2011 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
Think of Afghanistan and the first things to run through your mind would probably be war, Taliban, maybe Osama bin Laden. On a good day for the country’s Ministry for Information and Culture, you might think of camels.
All things considered, any of these would not be an unreasonable take on the troubled and complicated nation.
Source: AoL News (first published 25 January 2011)
Bowen’s Afghan memorandum
January 20, 2011 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
The announcement on Monday that Immigration Minister Chris Bowen and Afghan Minister for Refugees and Repatriation Jamahir Anwary had signed a memorandum of understanding providing for the involuntary return to Afghan asylum seekers has prompted predictable responses from both sides of the asylum seeker debate.
Immigration minister Chris Bowen has been playing the tough guy this week on Sydney and Melbourne talk radio — saying the new agreement will deter Afghan asylum seeks from travelling to Australia — while refugee advocates slammed the government for even thinking about coercing asylum seekers back to Afghanistan.
Source: Crikey.com
Call for help for IDPs, deportees in Helmand
January 11, 2011 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
(IRIN) – Thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from insurgency-hit Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, need food assistance urgently, officials told IRIN.
Unpaid volunteers prop up health system
January 3, 2011 by Webmaster · Leave a Comment
(IRIN) – Some 22,000 community health volunteers in Afghanistan are vital to the country’s health system but some are beginning to wonder if they might provide a more effective service if they were paid, and had formal work contracts.
