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...
Sep 2, 2010
Please check out this fascinating new collection of testimonies from the Afghan organization Cooperation for Peace and Unity: Nomadic and Settled Communities, A Community based peace-building approach This is the introduction to the study from CPAU project manager...
Aug 25, 2010
The Press Association, 19 August 2010 EXCERPT: “Afghanistan is at greater risk of suffering disruption to its food supplies than any other country, new research has found. Poverty, poor infrastructure and the ongoing war between Nato forces and insurgents mean...