The global economic downturn has aggravated human rights violations and distracted attention from abuses, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
The world faced a grave danger that "rising poverty and desperate economic and social conditions could lead to political instability and mass violence," the rights group's secretary-general, Irene Khan, wrote in its annual report.
Heavy flooding and landslides have killed 94 people and left thousands of families homeless in northern Afghanistan since May 20, the United Nations said on Monday.
Some 8,000 houses in 207 villages have been totally or partially destroyed after heavy rain across five provinces, affecting 13,689 families, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement.
Two children died in Upper Kurram Agency because of shortage of medicines on Wednesday, increasing the number of such deaths to 43 in three weeks, a private TV channel reported.
Pesticide industry is working day and night in the development of agriculture and its clear proof with the record production of wheat during the current season, however the pesticide industry is being tried to destroy.
A tripartite meeting of top officials of US, Pakistan, and Afghanistan held here Thursday and they agreed on a working plan to alleviate poverty through rapid agriculture growth, as a step forward addressing the root-cause of terrorism and extremism.
Afghanistan's only known pig has been locked in a room, away from visitors to Kabul zoo where it normally grazes beside deer and goats, because people are worried it could infect them with the virus popularly known as swine flu.
After decades of false starts, Afghanistan is creating its first national park, Band-e-Amir, encompassing a sprawling swath of rugged land surrounding a series of deep blue lakes in the mountains west of Kabul. The lakes sit behind natural travertine dams.
