Georgette Gagnon

Will Afghan Women Survive in 2014? A UN Expert Relays the Fears

• October 29, 2013

LONDON — Georgette Gagnon’s job in Afghanistan as the country representative for the United Nations high commissioner for human rights may sound like an impossible mission, given the country’s notorious instability and flagrant abuse of women’s rights. Yet it is not so much the pending Western troop withdrawal in 2014 that unnerves Afghan women, …

Asia, Human Rights, Women

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More Afghan Civilians Die as Foreign Forces Exit

Barbara Crossette

• August 1, 2013

After recording an encouraging drop in civilian casualties in 2012, the United Nations mission in Afghanistan now fears those gains may be reversing, based on the numbers of deaths and injuries already recorded in the first six months of 2013.Casualties have risen 23 percent over the same period in 2012, according to the UN’s …

Asia, Human Rights, Peace and Security, Security Council, Women

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Life for Women and Girls in Afghanistan Grows Deadlier

Lorraine Boissoneault

• March 20, 2013

With the deadline for the departure of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan just a year away, civilian casualties in the country remain alarmingly high, says a new report from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (Unama). Although the report said the number of casualties had decreased for the first time in six …