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Welcome to ConflictVoice. We are a group of independent bloggers and campaigners who focus on issues around the impact of conflict on the world's poorest people.Catch up with great posts, pictures and videos- read about what happened during the Arms Trade Treaty negotiations in the UN in October 2009. We had ConflictVoice bloggers at the UN and across the globe highlighting what happened.
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On Wednesday in London, an esteemed collection of Afghan women leaders met with the public in Britain’s House of Commons to discuss the NATO and Karzai Administration’s war strategy for…
The London Conference will be held today — Thursday, January 28, 2010. At this conference, the international community is coming together to fully align military and civilian resources behind an…
“We must ensure that development does not falter in Afghanistan,” Mercy Corps UK director Mervlyn Lee said in his opening…
KABUL (PAN): The trust that most Afghans showed in international intervention and the optimism they had about their future after the fall of the Taliban regime are on the wane, says an independent research organisation based in Kabul.
Today’s Afghan NGO conference - “An Alternative View: Afghan Perspectives on Development and Security” - was filled with brilliant, capable, and powerful minds proposing broad directions….
From afar, it appears rather obvious that a democratic government of unity and reconciliation would rise in Afghanistan without the inclusion of enemies of its core values, namely…
This week’s London Conference on Afghanistan will largely be a forum for the UK to confront its domestic worries about West Asia, but it will also confront vital challenges important to…
We have been coming to terms for some time with the many dualities of society. It evokes neither query nor sigh that vital aspects of Afghanistan’s future may be decided by a group made up…
Afghanistan’s electoral body announced yesterday that parliamentary elections originally scheduled for May 22 will be delayed until September.
Afghanistan’s electoral body announced…
Afghanistan is at a critical juncture. That sentence has become cliché, but it is no less true for being so.
Eight years after the overthrow of the Taliban Government, measurable and meaningful progress has been achieved in a broad range of areas. Access to basic medical care has been expanded. Women and ethnic and religious minorities serve at all levels of government. The number of children in school has shot up from less than a million in 2001 to six million today. Local NGOs, once operated clandestinely, are registered with the government and receive assistance from international donors. An overwhelmingly amateur class of journalists has revived Afghanistan’s press.
With ticket now in hand, yours truly is now set to fly to London for the London Conference on Afghanistan. The event, hosted by UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband, starring UK Prime…
