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Tom Koenigs on recent visit to Pul-i-Charkhi prison

UN plays key role in Afghan prison reform; Pul-i-Charkhi seen as model

8 May 2006
Afghanistan’s Pul-i-Charkhi prison, once described by a newspaper as a “kind of Buchenwald,” has become a model for prison reform in the war-torn country, said officials of the United Nations, which is taking a lead role in the difficult task of improving the detention and legal system countrywide.
Afghans face shortages of aid

UN agency appeals for urgent funds to feed 3.5 million hungry Afghans

4 May 2006
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today called on international donors to provide urgently needed funds to ensure food aid to 3.5 million hungry Afghans, warning that there will be a break in food supplies this month without fresh donations.
A child in Afghanistan

Jobs, housing, water are priorities for Afghan returnees – UN-backed survey

2 May 2006
Social and economic rights to jobs, housing and safe drinking water – not security -- were named as top priorities by a majority of Afghan returnees in a survey conducted with the support of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

More than 2 million Afghan children targeted by UN-backed polio campaign

1 May 2006
More than 2 million Afghan children will be targeted by a new United Nations-backed three-day polio eradication drive next week, following a sixth reported case of the crippling and sometimes fatal disease in the south of the country this year.
Tom Koenigs, SRSG in Afghanistan

UN envoy in Afghanistan visits Iran to promote regional cooperation

1 May 2006
The top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan began a two-day visit to Iran today as part of an international effort to promote regional cooperation.