Afghanistan: Earthquakes - Mar 2002 Updates

Introduction The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa (ROMENA) supports disaster response and preparedness...

Basic Information Conflict Issues/Needs -A Long Battle and The Largest Number of Refugees in History The fighting that began in 1979 with the invasion of the former Soviet Union has intensified over...

The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are...

Seventeen months after an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale struck the market town of Nahrin in northern Afghanistan, many of the mud-brick houses are still in ruins. A walk along the...

Appeal No. 10/02: An emergency appeal was launched on 12 April 2002 for CHF 2,921,000 for 9 Months. Responding to the evolving reconstruction situation, revision no 1 was issued on 31 January 2003,...

Previously named Humanitarian Crisis Appeal The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian...

KABUL, 14 April (IRIN) - Efforts to provide relief to those affected by a moderate earthquake in the northeastern province of Takhar last week continued on Monday, with aid agencies struggling to...

Appeal launched on 12 April 2002 for CHF 2,921,000 for 9 Months. Budget revised to CHF 2,235,984 and operation extended until July 2003. Period covered: 1 November 2002 - 31 January 2003. Last...

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION DAILY NEWS BULLETIN 09.01.2003 In 2002, Russia was actively executing humanitarian aid projects for Afghanistan by delivering to the country a...

Catholic Relief Services has been providing a wide variety of emergency aid to Afghan refugees in Pakistan and vulnerable persons within Afghanistan over the last year. Although life within...

Appeal launched on 12 April 2002 for CHF 2,921,000 for nine months. Period covered: 1 June - 31 October 2002. Last operations update issued on 1June 2002. "At a Glance" Appeal coverage: 77.9% Related...

UNICEF in Afghanistan Working in partnership with the Afghan Transitional Authority, the humanitarian community and the people of Afghanistan Funding status as at 11 September 2002 UNICEF ITAP...

JICA participates in the project to provide assistance to Afghanistan, making use of the experience that it gained in providing assistance to East Timor for infrastructure restoration in 1999. JICA...

The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) is working on the recovery of its schools and its clinic in Nahrin district, in Baghlan province, in northern Afghanistan in a post-earthquake recovery...

The initial foundations have been cleared and mud-bricking begun on the homes of several hundred families in the Shomali Valley, north of Kabul, reports Donna Derr, CWS coordinator of international...

By Andy McElroy in Kabul, Afghanistan Twenty-three years of war, three years of drought and finally a massive earthquake. That has been the lot of the 80,000 people of Nahrin, Afghanistan. Surely,...

ECOSOC/6020 2002 Substantive Session 25th and 26th Meetings (AM & PM) The Economic and Social Council continued its humanitarian affairs segment at the highest level today, in an interactive dialogue...

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: This Situation Report updates...

Although nearly a quarter of a million Afghans have returned to Afghanistan in the last two months alone, some 40,000 are still trying to enter Pakistan at the Chaman border crossing. The group has...

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: This Situation Report updates...