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Inside our work in Afghanistan

Submitted by Ned Colt on February 12, 2012 - 4:06am
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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


January 12, 2012
By Ned Colt

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

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

Kabul, Afghanistan - 27 Nov 2008 -   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

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

Anna Husarska        

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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