Full Coverage: South West Asia

28.09.2006 "Safety measures must be enhanced to protect the women who are building a better Afghanistan for all," said the director of the women's research institute at the UN, condemning Monday's murder of a top Afghan women's rights official.
From: United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women

26.09.2006 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "was genuinely interested in further conversation with the religious community and engaging in a real discussion with the U.S. government," said one of 45 faith leaders who met the Iranian president last week to discuss his country's current political crisis with the United States.

25.09.2006 Fourth National Summit of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT Summit 2006) held on 25 September at the International Business Centre (Tashkent) opened the ICT Week in Uzbekistan.

22.09.2006 Journalists in Afghanistan are facing increasing pressure and threats for doing their jobs, mainly from government authorities and regional warlords, the country’s leading media association - Afghanistan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) - warned in the capital, Kabul.

19.09.2006 Over 7 million Afghan children aged under five will be vaccinated against the polio virus during a three-day joint campaign launched by the Afghan health ministry and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

13.09.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 13 (OneWorld) - The Bush Administration is objecting to a groundbreaking treaty that set up a nuclear weapon-free zone in Central Asia.

12.09.2006 From supporting gender apartheid abroad to sacrificing feeding programs for U.S. women and children so that ExxonMobil can get a tax break, U.S. priorities are consistent: oil wins over women's rights hands down, says Martha Burk.

11.09.2006 Five Central Asian states committed themselves to never acquiring, manufacturing, possessing, or testing nuclear weapons by signing a treaty Thursday to create a Central Asian nuclear-weapon-free zone.
From: Arms Control Association

08.09.2006 Five years after U.S. President George W. Bush launched his "global war on terrorism," the world has become more unsafe, more divided, more strife-prone, more paranoid, and ironically, more vulnerable to terrorism, says New Delhi-based journalist Praful Bidwai.

01.09.2006 Creative solutions are helping get kids in school and improve the quality of education.