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Afghanistan - Annual report 2008 From Reporters Without Borders For Press Freedom: Afghanistan, which has been destabilised by an increasingly violent civil war, finds it difficult to protect its journalists.   Details...      FSR elects new Board of Directors In keeping with our model of building self-reliance, a new team of SF Bay Area Afghan American youth have taken over the helm of FSR.  Details...      Conflict threatens access to children by humanitarian organizations in Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan, 8 July 2008 Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Radhika Coomaraswamy (left) and UNICEF's Director of Emergency Programmes Louis-Georges Arsenaul have completed a five-day tour of Afghanistan.  Details...      AFGHANISTAN: 1.5 million "severely" hit by drought KABUL, 17 July 2008 (IRIN) - At least 1.5 million people in 19 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces - mostly farming communities in the north - have been severely affected by drought and are in need of urgent humanitarian relief, an Afghan minister told IRIN. Read the full report...  Details...      Need for Survival Fuels Sex Work, High Birth Rate Kills Mothers in Afghanistan feminist wire | daily newsbriefs: July 21, 2008. Women and young girls are being pushed to commercial sex work due to high food prices and widespread unemployment in Afghanistan. High fertility rates, poor health services, and a high maternal mortality rate compound these issues.  Details...      AFGHANISTAN: High birth rate killing mothers, infants - UNFPA expert KABUL, 14 July 2008 (IRIN) - Afghanistan has the highest fertility rate in Asia - 6.7 - which not only means the deaths of thousands of young mothers and infants every year but also poses long-term challenges, an expert of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) warned.  Read the full report...   Details...      Afghanistan continues to suffer... ...from a pervasive culture of impunity and a weak rule of law. Read the full 2008-2009 OHCRH report...   Details...      Alarm Bells in Afghanistan 07/18/2008. Center for American Progress. Caroline Wadhams & Colin Cookma. Reprinted from e-Ariana. The forgotten war in Afghanistan has once again leapt back into the news with disturbing reports of rising international casualties and large-scale Taliban offensives in the south. Read the full article...  Details...       --= NFSP =--      AFGHANISTAN: Food prices fueling sex work in north? MAZAR-I-SHARRIF, 16 July 2008 (IRIN) - High food prices, drought, unemployment and lack of socio-economic opportunities are pushing some women and young girls in northern Afghanistan into commercial sex work, women’s rights activists and several affected women told IRIN. Read the full report....   Details...      
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Robert (Bob) Anderson, Phd, MD Print
Advisory Board Member

Address:
Oakland
CA
USA

Telephone: 510.797.4660

Information: Bob, a physician-anthropoligist, is a Professor of Anthropology and Head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Mills College in Oakland, CA.

Dr. Anderson earned his BA, MA, and PhD at UC Berkeley; a Certificate of Advanced Studies at the University of Copenhagen; a Docteur en Sociology at Sorbonne, Université de Paris, France; and an MD at the University of Juarez, Mexico.

He is widely published and has served as Editor or as a member of the Editorial Board of several journals, including Medical Anthropology and Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. He is the former Director of Research at the San Francisco Spine Institute at Seton Medical Center.

In his spare time, Dr. Anderson works as a professional volunteer and researcher at Fremont High, a "failing school" in East Oakland, CA.


 
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