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It’s been 10 years since the current war started, and despite billions of dollars spent, Afghanistan remains one of the poorest countries. While international support has improved the lives of some, nearly half of Afghans live in poverty, subject to intimidation and threats from the warring parties and have no certainty about the future. Despite the Western media’s efforts, the country can’t be reduced to just a battleground. Afghans young and old carry on with their lives, discuss, create, and imagine a better world.
News Feeds
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AFGHANISTAN: Bonded labour ensnares entire families
IRIN News | 16/05/2012 00:00am |
KABUL 16 May 2012 (IRIN) - Bonded labour in Afghanistan’s brick kilns is one of the most common forms of hazardous labour in the country. More than half of the brick kiln workers surveyed in a recent report by the International Labour Organization (... More
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AFGHANISTAN: Bonded labour ensnares entire families
IRIN News | 16/05/2012 00:00am |
KABUL 16 May 2012 (IRIN) - Bonded labour in Afghanistan’s brick kilns is one of the most common forms of hazardous labour in the country. More than half of the brick kiln workers surveyed in a recent report by the International Labour Organization (... More
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Afghanistan: How to Use an Afghan Box Camera
Global Voices | 11/05/2012 03:25am |
The Presurfer shares a small video documentary of one of the only two remaining Afghan box photographers left in Kabul, and how he takes pictures and processes them inside a small black box. Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · comments (0) Share:... More
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NEPAL: Mountain dwellers “neglected”
IRIN News | 08/05/2012 00:00am |
KATHMANDU 08 May 2012 (IRIN) - The needs of millions of indigenous mountain people across Nepal are overlooked, imperilling their food security and hindering their economic progress, activists and experts say. “People in the mountains of Nepal are... More
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NEPAL: Mountain dwellers “neglected”
IRIN News | 08/05/2012 00:00am |
KATHMANDU 08 May 2012 (IRIN) - The needs of millions of indigenous mountain people across Nepal are overlooked, imperilling their food security and hindering their economic progress, activists and experts say. “People in the mountains of Nepal are... More
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Briefing: The right way forward for Afghan refugees?
IRIN News | 03/05/2012 00:00am |
DUBAI 03 May 2012 (IRIN) - As a meeting of representatives of the Afghan, Iranian and Pakistani governments and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) opened to discuss a new strategy for dealing with the most protracted refugee crisis in the world, NGOs working... More
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Briefing: The right way forward for Afghan refugees?
IRIN News | 03/05/2012 00:00am |
DUBAI 03 May 2012 (IRIN) - As a meeting of representatives of the Afghan, Iranian and Pakistani governments and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) opened to discuss a new strategy for dealing with the most protracted refugee crisis in the world, NGOs working... More
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AFGHANISTAN: Concerns over child detention conditions in Kandahar
IRIN News | 03/05/2012 00:00am |
KABUL 03 May 2012 (IRIN) - A government plan to relocate an all-boys juvenile rehabilitation centre (JRC) in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, from the city centre to a site near Sarposa prison, where top Taliban leaders are held, could expose the children... More
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AFGHANISTAN: Concerns over child detention conditions in Kandahar
IRIN News | 03/05/2012 00:00am |
KABUL 03 May 2012 (IRIN) - A government plan to relocate an all-boys juvenile rehabilitation centre (JRC) in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, from the city centre to a site near Sarposa prison, where top Taliban leaders are held, could expose the children... More
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Neutralidad para Afganistán
Afghan Analysts Network | 02/05/2012 22:00pm |
Un equipo de negociación de la ONU podría evitar el riesgo de guerra civil que se cierne sobre el país centroasiático. More