Iran: Drought - Jul 2001 Updates

Highlights of a new FAO report - As the year draws to a close, FAO's latest estimates confirm that a new record high level of global cereal production was achieved in 2008, sufficient to cover the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Launched on 15 July 2002 for CHF 899,000 for 12 months for 65,000 beneficiaries. Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) Allocated: N/A Period covered: 15 February - 15 July 2003 IN BRIEF Appeal...

Iran plans to complete 35 new dams throughout the country that would conserve some 25 billion cubic meters of water annually, "Iran Daily" reported on 14 May. Twelve of the dams would be in border...

Launched on 15 July 2002 for CHF 899,000 for 12 months for 65,000 beneficiaries. Beneficiaries: 65,000 Period covered: 10 November 2002 - 15 February 2003 ; Last Update: 10 November 2002 Next Update...

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the morning of 2 March visited the Hirmand River, the Chahnimeh Reservoir, the Zehak Dam, and irrigation networks in the Kahak border area in the northeastern...

Isfahan Province official Mansur Shisheh-Forush said that rains from this and last year have not compensated for the drought of previous years in Isfahan, "Jomhuri-yi Islami" reported on 20 January...

This document supplements the ICRC's Headquarters Appeal 2003and contains: an overview of the ICRC's operations in 2003 a description of its presence in the field a breakdown of its operational...

A/57/644-S/2002/1364 General Assembly Fifty-seventh session Agenda item 87 Environment and sustainable development Security Council Fifty-seventh year Letter dated 12 December 2002 from the Permanent...

From RFE/RL Iran Report Volume 5, Number 43 Farmers in Iran's southeastern Sistan va Baluchistan Province depend on water from Afghanistan's extensively used Hirmand (Helmand) River to irrigate their...

KANDAHAR (NNI): Afghan Minister for Housing and Urban Reconstruction, Youssef Pashtun, has said his government had approved the restoration in the flow of Hirmand river for 60 days to Iran and was...

Afghanistan has halted the flow of the Hirmand (Helmand) River into Iran, according to a 6 November report in "Iran," the official Islamic Republic News Agency daily. The river's water resumed...

From RFE/RL Iran Report Volume 5, Number 40 Water from the Helmand (Hirmand) River in Afghanistan reached Iran on 25 October, Iranian Energy Ministry official Hussein Ali Eshraki told AP on 28...

TEHRAN, 25 September (IRIN) - The Hamun lake region is one of the most critical social and environmental emergencies in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Largely unknown by the international community, this...

IFRC News 15/02 In order to extend its essential drought relief programme in Iran until May 2003, the International Federation has appealed for 900,000 Swiss francs to continue its assistance to...

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...

In order to prolong its essential drought relief programme in Iran until May 2003, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is appealing for 900,000 Swiss francs to...