Physical Map Of Cambodia

The HALO Trust, an American and British “not for profit” charity, specializes in the removal of landmines and unexploded ordnance from post-conflict zones. Since it began humanitarian demining in Afghanistan in 1988, it has destroyed over one million explosive items. HALO is currently conducting humanitarian demining in Afghanistan, Abkhazia (Georgia), Angola, Cambodia, Eritrea, Mozambique, Nagorno-Karabakh, Somaliland and Sri Lanka. HALO has also conducted surveys and limited clearance in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Chechnya (now suspended), Ethiopia, Laos, Sudan and Vietnam. Its operations have already saved lives and enabled other agencies to safely render aid. To learn more, telephone Nigel Robinson, Vice President, at HALO Trust's New York City office at (212) 581-0099; email HALO.USA@VERIZON.NET; fax (212) 581-2029; or visit WWW.HALOUSA.ORG.The National Com ... [Read More]

Burma

Children also suffered greatly from the Government's severe neglect of health care. Although the Government doubled its budget for the Ministry of Health in FY 2003‑04, it still amounted to only 1.2 percent of total Government expenditures. There were no reports that the Government discriminated between boys and girls in the provision of health care. In 2001, the latest data available, official studies sponsored by U.N. agencies found that, on average, 109 of 1,000 children died before reaching the age of 5 years, and that only 1 out of 20 births in rural areas was attended by a doctor. A joint Ministry of Labor and U.N. Populations Fund (UNFPA) study in 2001 indicated that, among children under 5 years of age, 7.9 percent were severely malnourished. A joint Ministry of Health and UNICEF report in 2000 indicated that on a national level 35.3 percent of children under 5 are moderately to severely underweight, 33.9 percent are moderately to severely underdeveloped, and ... [Read More]

The U.S. Government’s International Anti-Trafficking Programs Fiscal Year 2002

EAPU.S. Department of State’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific AffairsECA U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural AffairsECOWASEconomic Community of West African StatesEURU.S. Department of State’s Bureau of European AffairsG/TIPOffice to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in PersonsCICP [Read More]

Reconstruction and Rebuilding Efforts in Afghanistan

A lot of our focus is in agriculture, and agriculture is not a visible thing. You know, when you do a physical reconstruction, like a school, there's a sign on it. There is no sign on 7,000 tons of seed that we introduced last spring, and then another 5,000 tons of seed we just distributed. We will, over a three-year cycle, replace 20 percent of the seed stock of the country with a new variety of wheat that will increase yields by 80 to 100 percent and is drought resistant. So if another drought comes, part of the crop will survive and grow food. The country, before 1978 was food self-sufficient. In fact, they exported food. There's been a massive loss of productive capacity over the last 24 years. We're rebuilding that, both for food security reasons, for nutrition reasons, but also for economic reasons. Seventy percent of the people are farmers or herders. If you don't have the agricultural economy moving, there's no jobs and there's no wealth and the country will not come back to li ... [Read More]

Article Alert, Archives--Electronic Advance Documents

Under the Alaska Sex Offender Registration Act (Act), any sex offender or child kidnaper incarcerated in the State must register with the Department of Corrections within 30 days before his release, providing his name, address, and other specified information. The offender's information is forwarded to the Department of Public Safety, which maintains a central registry of sex offenders. Some of the data, such as fingerprints, driver's license number, anticipated change of address, and whether the offender has had medical treatment afterwards is kept confidential. The offender's name, aliases, address, photograph, physical description, driver's license number, motor vehicle identification numbers, place of employment, date of birth, crime, date and place of conviction, length and conditions of sentence, and a statement as to whether the offender is in compliance with the Act's update requirements or cannot be located are published on the Internet. Supporters of this practi ... [Read More]