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  • [United Arab Emirates] His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed, UAE RC President.
  • NGO Coordination Committee in Iraq - NCCI logo.
  • [Lebanon] Hamda Freikh Hamido (Ali's wife) shows the dilapidated shelters they live in (one or two rooms for up to 9 people). [Date picture taken: 12/07/2005]
  • [Nepal] Most mountain districts, like Humla, pictured, are regarded as food deficit areas where agricultural production is very low lasting for less than five months. This mountain district of Humla, 750 km northwest of Kathmandu and lying at an altitude
    Most mountain districts, like Humla, pictured, are regarded as food deficit areas. Humla has one of the worst food deficits in the country and the Human Development Index of the area is believed to be one of the lowest in the world
  • Country Map - Yemen
  • Country Map - Lebanon
  • [Ghana] Liberian refugee in Ghana since 1996 still reluctant to return home, November 2005.
    Liberian who refugees have been in Ghana since 1996. Some of the 40,000 who remain do not want to go home
  • [Syria] Participants in the symposium on children watching war. [Date picture taken: 12/07/2005]
    Filmmakers discussing ways of presenting war coverage to youngsters
  • Country Map - Egypt.
  • [Nepal] Due to lack of teachers in school, many classes are not held. By the end of the year, many children end up failures by spending more time waiting for their teachers and lack of regular classes. The successful community managed schools is now at ri
    The climate in schools for many children is one of fear, both of abductions by Maoist rebels and of the soldiers stationed outside schools by the security forces. The lack of teachers in schools also means that many classes are not held
  • [Nepal] The rebels are reported to control huge tracts of lands in villages but agriculturalists have reported that the agricultural production has not been severely affected in contrary to the speculation in the media. The only burden for the farmers is
  • [Nepal] Many Nepalis still have problems with the market access due to strict policies of the Maoists to register with them and pay tax for every item. If they fail to show their tax bills to the rebels on the way, they will be punished especially in this
  • [Nepal] Agriculture is a predominant occupation of over 80 percent Nepalese especially outside the cities and towns. Most of the families in the hills can barely produce food lasting for five months despite all the hardship. Photo by Naresh Newar in the r
    Most families in the mountains can barely produce enough food to last five months
  • [Nepal] Many Nepalis in the rural areas migrate to India for jobs due to food insufficiency at home especially during the hungry seasons from December to June. Although this problem existed even before the Maoist conflict started, agriculturists say that
  • [Nepal] Villagers are often under pressure due to the constant political strikes by Maoists and seven parties as well as curfew imposed by the government. In some districts like Rukum, the economic blockade is still on for an uncertain period so that the
    Frequent political strikes and government curfews mean that goods from villages often will not reach markets in district centers. Many villagers, such as this goat trader in Rukum, have to take difficult and dangerous routes around the district
  • [Nepal] Educationists are worried that Nepal may fail to achieve its education goal as per the Millennium Development Goal. This year’s school enrolment programme was reported to be a big failure. Many children, especially girls, drop out of school due
  • [Nepal] Education has been the hardest hit sector due to the Maoist conflict. Many teachers have been killed and attacked by the Maoist rebels. According to NGO reports, they have also been illegally detained and tortured to death inside the army barracks
    Teachers have been especially targeted in the conflict, allegedly by both rebels and the army. Narjit Basnet’s hand was chopped off by Maoist rebels. He still manages to teach the children at a community school
  • [Syria] Panellists (from left to right) Dr. Essali, Firas Dehni (Syria) and Dr. Barbara Steinbauer-Groetsch (Germany). [Date picture taken: 12/07/2005]
  • [Nepal] Children cannot concentrate in classrooms due to fears of both the Maoist rebels and security force. Despite calls by UNICEF and NGOs to declare children as a zone of peace, the Maoists continue to organise cultural and Maoist education programmes
    Sexual abuse often occurs in schools, activists say
  • [Nepal] Many young women have been widowed after their husbands were either killed by the Maoists for political reasons or failing to join their party and by the security force who illegally detained and tortured them after they were arrested on suspicion
    They work as hard as men - but only get half the pay
  • [Nepal] Most of the district centres like this in Musikot are fortified with barbed wires and controlled by the unified command of Royal Nepal Army (RNA) and Armed Police Force (APF). Photo by Naresh Newar in November 2005, Musikot, Rukum District.
    Soldiers are still operating from at least 12 schools despite the ceasefire, say NGOs
  • [Nepal] Maoist tortured victim Amrit Prasad Lamichanne. Photo by Naresh Newar in Rukum, November 2005.
  • [Nepal] Human rights activist, Subodh Pyakhurel. Photo by Naresh Newar in Kathmandu, December 2005.
  • [Nepal] Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) Spokesman, Brigadier General Deepak Gurung. Photo by Naresh Newar in RNA Headquarters in Kathmandu, November 2005.
    Royal Nepalese Army's former spokesman, Brigadier-General Deepak Gurung
  • [Nepal] The Maoist rebels have asked the IDPs to return to their villages where their houses have been locked and lands seized by the rebels. The rebels have not given assurance that their properties will be returned. Photo by Naresh Newar in Sankhyuwasab
    The rebels have asked the IDPs to return to their villages, but they have given no assurance that returning villagers will be given back land and property the Maoists have seized
  • [Nepal] IDPs families have started to work as a group to support each other by raising funds in the district centres and raising awareness of their issues at both local and national levels. This group in Rukum which started in November has not received pe
  • [Nepal] Balaram Buda and his wife have lost everything after their son was killed in the crossfire between the security force and the rebels. There are an estimated 150,000-200,000 IDPs in Nepal. Photo by Naresh Newar in Rukum, November 2005.
    Balaram Buda and his wife lost son in the crossfire between the security force and the rebels
  • [Nepal] Mankumari Bista has been living as an IDP for more than five years at the district headquarters after her husband was killed by the rebels. Many like her are living in extreme poverty situation without any support from the government or internatio
    Mankumari Bista has been an IDP since her husband was killed by rebels five years ago. Many displaced women like her are living in extreme poverty, without any support from the government or international humanitarian agencies
  • [Nepal] Most of the internally displaced families are still living impoverished lives in the rural district centres. The government has so far managed to only establish a handful of IDPs camps in west Nepal, where mostly only the financially sound village
  • [Nepal] Despite international calls to both the government and Maoists to respect international humanitarian and human rights laws, the violations against the civilians has continued. The European Union Troika also visited Nepal this year and urged both
    Despite international calls to both the government and Maoists to respect international humanitarian and human rights laws, abuses have continued. The European Union Troika, pictured, visited Nepal this year and urged both parties to respect human rights
  • [Nepal] Most of the men fear to live in their villages threatened with arrests by security on false charges of working as a Maoist or getting killed by rebels for alleging them to be anti-Maoist. This family’s breadwinner, a young husband of Saleha Faki
    There is evidence that both the Maoists and the security forces have committed human rights abuses, including extra-judicial killings, torture and disappearances
  • [Nepal] The creation of village self defence forces, notorious as the vigilante groups, are reported to be committing serous human rights violations against the ordinary civilians in the name of flushing out the Maoist rebels. It is alleged that the secur

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