Sep 2, 2010
In less than one month our five-week intensive training in documentary filmmaking begins in Afghanistan. Production equipment, donated and purchased, is rolling in the door. The passport is stamped, shots are taken and ticket bought for departure on September 13th....
Sep 2, 2010
Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), KABUL, 29 August 2010 (IRIN) – Education in Faryab Province, northern Afghanistan, has never been as good as it is now thanks to...
Sep 2, 2010
By RAVI NESSMAN (AP) AZAKHEL, Pakistan — After fleeing the Soviet invasion of his country with nothing, Afghan refugee Ziarat Gul spent three decades building a new life in neighboring Pakistan. After the devastating floods that rolled across Pakistan last month, he...
Sep 2, 2010
Internal Displacement Monitoring Forces (IDMC), 15 April 2010 EXCERPT: “After large, and mostly spontaneous, return movements following the ousting of the Taliban regime in 2002, internal displacement is again on the rise, with new displacements as a result of...
Sep 2, 2010
Source: Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Date: Aug 2010 Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti in January of this year and the intense media coverage of the subsequent aid operations, the UK’s The Lancet journal published an editorial entitled ‘The growth...
