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ASIA: IRIN-ASIA Weekly round-up 147 for 22 – 28 October 2007

29 Oct 2007 08:17:08 GMT
Source: IRIN

DUBAI, 29 October 2007 (IRIN) - CONTENTS:

AFGHANISTAN: Insecurity complicates aid delivery for 1,600 displaced families in Uruzgan AFGHANISTAN: One month to avert mass displacement in Ghor AFGHANISTAN: Attacks threaten girls' schooling in Shindand AFGHANISTAN: Abdul Bari, Afghanistan: "I go to school risking my life and my parents' lives" BANGLADESH: Floods and erosion destroy schools NEPAL: Street children sniff glue to beat hunger pangs NEPAL: Groundwater exploitation heightens health dangers NEPAL: Danger of more deaths due to diarrhoea outbreak PAKISTAN: Rural road access on the remake in quake-hit north PAKISTAN: Education the first casualty in Swat SRI LANKA: Tourism industry hit by renewed conflict

AFGHANISTAN: Insecurity complicates aid delivery for 1,600 displaced families in Uruzgan

Protracted armed conflict between Taliban insurgents and Afghan and international forces in Uruzgan province in central Afghanistan has displaced about 1,600 families, according to officials.

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74907

AFGHANISTAN: One month to avert mass displacement in Ghor

The government of Afghanistan, the UN and humanitarian agencies are expected to assist tens of thousands of food-insecure people in several districts of Ghor province in central-west Afghanistan before the first snowfalls in late November, which usually block the roads, aid workers told IRIN on 22 October.

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74919

AFGHANISTAN: Attacks threaten girls' schooling in Shindand

More than 1,500 female students have not attended classes for several days after unidentified assailants attacked their school in Shindand district in the western Afghan province of Herat, education officials told IRIN.

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74975

AFGHANISTAN: Abdul Bari, Afghanistan: "I go to school risking my life and my parents' lives"

After the Taliban burnt a school in our village and told villagers to send their children to Madrasas in Pakistan for their education, my father sent us to Lashkargah to continue our studies.

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=75021

BANGLADESH: Floods and erosion destroy schools

By Bangladeshi standards, the Banari Multilateral School is very old. More than 500 students from nearby villages are enrolled, mostly from very poor families, their parents being fishermen or agricultural labourers, with only a handful having small plots of land.

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74909

NEPAL: Street children sniff glue to beat hunger pangs

Bhim Pariyar, who grew up on the streets of the capital, Kathmandu, huddled in a corner with other boys like him, all trying to warm themselves around the fire they had made by burning plastic, paper and tyres.

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74899

NEPAL: Groundwater exploitation heightens health dangers

In the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, it is a daily drudgery for many residents, especially the poorest, to wake up before dawn to queue for water at the city taps or to start the electric water pumps to extract underground water.

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74952

NEPAL: Danger of more deaths due to diarrhoea outbreak

Health workers are increasingly concerned about the risk of a diarrhoea outbreak in the hills and southern plains of Nepal if adequate medical supplies, health assistance and sanitation are not provided.

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74986

PAKISTAN: Rural road access on the remake in quake-hit north

For Muhammad Zaman, the road connecting his village to the next - and onward to Muzaffarabad, the provincial capital of quake-affected Pakistani-administered Kashmir - is not just important, it is a lifeline.

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74931

PAKISTAN: Education the first casualty in Swat

Teachers and educators working in Pakistan's Swat valley have expressed concern over growing insecurity in the area, after a fresh round of violence hit the once idyllic valley in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP).

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74998

SRI LANKA: Tourism industry hit by renewed conflict

The drop in Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals, mainly because of security concerns, has been precipitous in recent months, leaving thousands of people on part-time pay or jobless.

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74928

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