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The U.S.-Afghan Women?s Council shows the power of public-private partnerships to transform lives and invest in the future of developing democracies. ?The Council shows what individual Americans can do to aid our country's humanitarian efforts in Afghanistan,? first lady Laura Bush says.
The U.S. government says some 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders each year and millions more are trafficked within their own countries to be indentured servants, farm laborers or worse. There is help for them now, in what the New York Times has called ?one of the most effective units in the U.S. government.?
A U.S. citizen diplomacy group, Sister Cities International, fosters understanding between the United States and the Muslim world by increasing contacts between ordinary citizens. Currently, there are 94 relationships between U.S. cities and cities in predominantly Muslim nations, [including San Diego in the United States and Jalalabad in Afghanistan] and about 20 new relationships are developing.
In a series of recent interviews, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice discusses several U.S. foreign policy priorities for 2008, the Bush administration's final year in office. These include keeping up momentum in the Mideast peace process, continuing support for democracy in Lebanon, building on the surge in Iraq, halting controversial nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea, promoting stability in Afghanistan and Pakistan, resolving the status of Kosovo and addressing Russia's concerns over a
The United States is reaching out to political leaders across Pakistan in the wake of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination, urging them to move forward with the democratic process. "She was a champion for democracy," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says of Bhutto after signing a condolence book at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington. "The way to honor her memory is to continue the democratic process in Pakistan so that the democracy that she so hoped for can emerge."
President Bush joins world leaders in shocked condemnation of the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and urges continued progress toward democratic reforms in Pakistan. ?The United States strongly condemns this cowardly act by murderous extremists who are trying to undermine Pakistan's democracy,? Bush tells reporters at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. ?Those who committed this crime must be brought to justice.?
A moderate, stable Afghanistan is crucial to the United States, its NATO allies and the southwest region of Asia. To that end, NATO is leading some 40,000 troops from 37 nations under the umbrella of the United Nations-mandated International Security Assistance Force. Civil-military provincial reconstruction teams populated by U.S. and coalition forces also have been hard at work refurbishing schools so that 5 million children can be educated and fixing up hospitals so that health care can be a
Many avian flu experts consider Vietnam a bright spot in the South and Southeast Asia regions, where many developing nations do not have systematic, coordinated processes for dealing with avian and human outbreaks. An emergency situation is under way in Pakistan, for example, where the Ministry of Health reported its first human cases December 15 -- eight suspected cases of H5N1 in the Peshawar area -- to the World Health Organization (WHO). The infections arose after a series of culling operati
Afghanistan remains hobbled by underdevelopment, poverty and illiteracy, a legacy of decades of war. The population's health problems are acute. But the problems in areas...[of remote] villages, the residents say, have been aggravated by the continuing insurgency and the harsh edicts of the Taliban, whose rule survives in such...places even after it lost control of Kabul, the Afghan capital, late in 2001.
To enhance the evolution of democracy in Afghanistan, the United States launches a public-private partnership to help improve the fledgling Afghan justice system by funding low-cost, high-impact projects that promote women's rights, access to justice, legal aid, professional legal development and other justice-related programs. "It is imperative that Afghanistan develop a well-trained, educated, and demographically representative cadre of judges to serve in courts across the country," Secretary
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