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A graduation day dream: teaching in Afghanistan

Hadya Abdul Satar in the Afghan capital, Kabul, last summer. Hadya hopes to find a teaching job in Afghanistan — her family's home country — after she graduates from the University of Richmond.

Photo courtesy of Hadya Abdul Satar
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NATO summit's forgotten people: Afghan civilians

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NATO summit's forgotten people: Afghan civilians
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May 23, 2012
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Far from the bright lights of Chicago where world leaders met to shape NATO's exit from Afghanistan, one of the war's victims, 12-year-old Aleema, sums up her life in three words: "It's the worst.

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Inside our work in Afghanistan

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February 12, 2012

Having endured decades of conflict and frequent natural disasters, Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. The IRC focuses on emergency preparedness and response as well as longer term development. Currently working in seven of the country’s 34 provinces, the IRC’s staff is 98% Afghan.
 

Lives in flux in Afghanistan

Some of the thousands of Afghans who have received support through the IRC

Photo: Ned Colt/IRC

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Press Release - Afghanistan: Aid Agencies Ask the UN Security Council for Assistance to Reach Communities and Avoid Humanitarian Crisis

The International Rescue Committee and other aid agencies said today they are concerned about the country's increasingly difficult operating environment.  They issued this statement.

Today, as members of the UN Security Council are visiting Afghanistan, aid agencies working in the country report that their operating environment is becoming increasingly difficult.

Access to communities in need of assistance and protection is shrinking day by day.

An Afghan Homecoming - Project Syndicate

Anna Husarska, IRC's senior policy adviser, wrote in June 2008 for Project Syndicate the following text:

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KABUL - As if the armed conflict between Afghan government forces supported by the American-led coalition

To Leave or Not To Leave (SLATE)

Slate on April 22, 2008 published the following article by Anna Husarska, the IRC's senior policy adviser.

JALOZAI, Pakistan - To leave or not to leave? That is the question 80,000 Afghans in the Jalozai refugee camp, located 20 miles from Peshawar, must ask themselves.

Stateless in Pakistan (THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ASIA)

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ASIA on April 14, 2008 published the following article by Anna Husarska, the IRC's senior policy adviser.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - In the war on terror, most of the media attention is paid to military operations in Afghanistan. But there's an equally important upheaval going on just over the border, in Pakistan's bulging refugee camps.

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